Our Senior Developers Aren’t Writing Code Anymore: "The first step is to find out why your top-tier team isn't writing code anymore, so you drop in to talk. That's when you discover that the recent round of hiring you did had an unintended side-effect. All the new team members are spending their days asking your top talent to help them. So instead of writing code, your best team is spending their days doing ad-hoc, time-intensive, inefficient one-on-one mentoring.

As the team's manager, you're faced with a dilemma. The new team members need to learn, but the existing team needs to get work done. Both are important, but the team isn't striking a balance on their own.

There are several practices you can introduce to help find a middle ground."

None of which are pair programming, which is an oversight. But I agree that Alone Time works.