Extreme Virtual Pair Programming

Pair programming... I'm not sure how many of us have already experienced the pair programming. For my part, I've only done it during a coaching and not as an activity per se. I'm not a great believer in its productivity in theory. Coaching is necessary and programming in pair during the coaching activity is surely valuable to the junior developers however, in this case, the knowledge flows only one way.

Anyway, have a look at this document: http://rockfish-cs.cs.unc.edu/pubs/TR04-008.pdf. That's about "Extreme Virtual Pair Programming". I can see a few benefits of it during remote coaching.