There is an interesting article about SparkFun's investigation into options for efficient bulk flashing of AVR microcontrollers here: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/raspberry-pi-stand-alone-programmer
Probably not exactly what you're asking about, but maybe you'll find some useful information there.
Yes, I have a board for flashing 10 chips at a time, everything connected in parallel, except the MISO pin, this is only connected to the first chip. I used a transistor for the RESET pins (Can't remember why I did that, it was almost 10 years ago)