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The benefits of trunk-based development


Why should we adopt trunk-based development? What benefits does it bring? On the Evilness of Feature Branching and subsequent articles articulated several times how trunk-based development is a superior delivery approach to any of its alternatives. This article attempts to summarise the value of trunk-based development.

On the Evilness of Feature Branching and subsequent articles articulated several times how trunk-based development is a superior delivery approach to any of its alternatives. The 2016 peer-reviewed academic paper The Role of CD in IT and Organisational Performance by Dr. Nicole Forsgren and Jez Humble, as well as the book Accelerate indicated that trunk-based development together with Continuous Integration predicts better quality and higher delivery throughput. Together with lean product management and a generative culture, they predict higher organisational performance as well as limited stress, fatigue and burnout.

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