July 1996
Intermediate to advanced
680 pages
19h 53m
English
The daily-build process has few drawbacks. Here is the main one.
CROSS-REFERENCE
The problems of premature releases are related to the problems of premature convergence discussed in "Premature convergence" in Overly Optimistic Scheduling.
Tendency toward premature releases. When people outside the development group see that the product is being built every day, pressure mounts to create frequent releases for outside groups. Creating external releases can look easy to a product manager, and it is easier than when you're not using daily builds, but it still sucks up developers' time in subtle ways:
Developers spend time preparing materials that are not needed for the final product but that are needed ...
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