Team Level Independence
Each team determines its own check-in policy, enable rapid, frequent check ins
Teams are isolated from mistakes made by other teams
- When errors occur, only the team causing the error is affected
- A build, boot, or test break only affects a small subset of the product group
Each team has their own view of the source tree, their own mini build lab, and builds an entire installable build
Any developer with adequate resources can easily duplicate a mini build lab
- build and release a completely installable Windows System