The Bottom Line on the Daily Build and Smoke Test
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For more on the importance of making progress visible, see Odds of Completing on Time, Perception and Reality.
The daily-build-and-smoke-test process is at heart a risk-management practice. Because the risks it addresses are schedule risks, it has a powerful ability to make schedules more predictable and to eliminate some of the risks that can cause extreme delays—integration problems, low quality, and lack of progress visibility.
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For more on the importance of making progress visible, see Odds of Completing on Time, Perception and Reality.
I don't know of any quantitative data on the schedule efficacy of the daily-build process, but the anecdotal reports on its value ...
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