Are there good reasons for developing features in isolation when aiming for the same release target?

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Published on 2010-04-10T11:55:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/10 12:03 UTC
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Many developers or teams seem to want to develope there features in isolation. I'm all for continuous integration and team work and I'm having hard time to figuring out if there are any good reasons from technical perspective in developing feature in isolation.

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