I've been working on a project that integrated/deployed so rarely that we had a dedicated merge team consisting of about half the work force. Except the merge t

I've been working on a project that integrated/deployed so rarely that we had a dedicated merge team consisting of about half the work force. Except the merge team wasn't involved in the actual development process so when they were trying to merge they had no idea how the various pieces should fit together. So the development team had to guide them trough the process. It was painful and it frequently took months for new development to reach the testing infrastructure and then many more months before reaching the customers. Debugging crashes on customer software meant checking out releases a year old or older and trying to figure out what could have been the root cause.