Talk:Use the Same Tools in a Team

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I'd like to doubt that using the same IDE will improve the teams performance. If I can use the tool (for my personal development) that I'm most productive with, why should I choose other?

I also think that it is not only a question of the tool but also of the interest of improving your efficiency. Most of my co-workers are much slower using their IDE as I am using theirs even if I never use theirs for my development.

I agree with you on SCM, Coding Style etc.

--Michael Hunger 14:09, 28 January 2009 (PST)

@Michael Thanks for the comment. In my own experience leading teams with 3 to 17 developers I often got problems when team members used different IDEs or even different versions of the same IDE. E.g, if the code formatting is different, we got different versions of source files that only differed in formatting. Another example was the project classpath.

Kai

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