Nope. The project can still have crazy dependencies that need compiled (thrift etc). Every morning every Dev in our shop no matter the project is going to run

Nope. The project can still have crazy dependencies that need compiled (thrift etc). Every morning every Dev in our shop no matter the project is going to run "mvn clean compile -U" Sure you can split the large projects up. Just get some time from your PM.. next quarter.... :)