Productivity Gains
Developers can easily switch from working on release N to release N+1
Developers in one team will not be impacted by mistakes/changes made by other teams
Developers have long, frequent checkin windows (Base team has a 24x7 open checkin window, vs. 2-3 hour per day checkin window with manual approval used during W2K
Source code control system is fast and reliable
Testing is done on complete builds instead of assorted collections of private binaries
- What is in the source code control system is what is tested