This makes so much sense that it amazes me how many times I've run into shops that haven't even bothered to TRY doing this. Most of the shops I've worked at th

This makes so much sense that it amazes me how many times I've run into shops that haven't even bothered to TRY doing this. Most of the shops I've worked at that have existing systems have setups that require days of effort to get working. One developer I ran into couldn't get the stuff he'd written to compile on anyone else's machine, so his method for deployment was to build it, jar it up, copy the jar over to the target machine, unpack the jar, and clean stuff up. Needless to say, he'd been working on a product for that company for around six years, and not only was it not finished, but no one, including him, could explain what it did to anyone.