One side effect of frequent integration is that it surfaces work that can otherwise accumulate unseen until it appears unexpectedly at the end of the project. That accumulation of unsurfaced work can turn into an end-of-project tar pit that takes weeks or months to struggle out of. Teams that haven’t used the daily build process sometimes feel that daily builds slow their progress to a snail’s crawl. What’s really happening is that daily builds amortize work more steadily throughout the project, and the project team is just getting a more accurate picture of how fast it’s been working all
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