On the Evilness of Feature Branching - A Tale of Two Teams Jul 14, 2021 • Thierry de Pauw • 6 min In 2012, I started a technical coaching mission to upscale the software engineering skills of a rather novice team. Novice from an engineering perspective, not so much from a working-experience perspective. They had working experience ranging from 5 to 20 years. Sometimes, people do not have the luxury to attend the right conferences. Or to work with people that would show them different ways of working. Luckily, we were the two of us to coach the team. Pair-coaching is tremendously reassuring. Especially when you have to introduce plenty of changes with people