Team merge coordination

To tackle this problem we created strict merging rules for our project. Every team member had to merge his branch into development and only when the first member had a running version, was the second allowed to start merging his part. Therefore we always had a running version and we saved a lot of time during development.
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Wouldn't this solution delay the development? If the first merge doesn't work as intended, the first developer has to work on that part again and the second developer can't do anything until the first one is done.

Team merge coordination

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Team merge coordination

To tackle this problem we created strict merging rules for our project. Every team member had to merge his branch into development and only when the first member had a running version, was the second allowed to start merging his part. Therefore we always had a running version and we saved a lot of time during development.

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