The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly.

Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.