Spend more time adding features

In the past, build and release activities were managed by the developers, along with the regular development work. It was followed by a trend of having separate teams that handled the build, release, and deployment activities. And it didn't stop there; this new model suffered from communication issues and a lack of coordination among developers, release engineers, and testers. However, using CI, all the build, release, and deployment work gets automated. Therefore, the development team need not worry about anything other than developing features. In most cases, even the complete testing is automated. Therefore by using a CI process, the development team can spend more time developing the code.