Charles Young has written a very nice article on his experiences with Team Build and Team Foundation Server. His summation on software builds is precisely what I’ve been saying years:
Build is difficult. To this day, it all too often remains the Cinderella of dev team activities with too little awareness of the importance of properly resourcing this requirement. Developers, who should be coding, instead spend much of their time struggling to try to achieve and maintain a stable build process, with really damaging consequences to the health of development projects.
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