Apr 8, 2014
This is a writeup of the Microsoft Office team’s source control usage, and how close it is to an ideal Trunk Based Development (TBD) model.
The summary, for those with ADHD, is that the office team does TBD, but imperfectly. It’s not new for them, it’s the way they’ve done it for a decade.
We know of hundred of software development teams that are doing trunk model that are sized 10 to 100 committers, but only a few with more than 100 developers, and only a couple that have more than 1000. Until now. Microsoft’s office team joins Google and Facebook as being known ‘TBD at scale’ adherents.