We struggled with long-running, complex builds and difficulty in sharing code across multiple projects. We started using Maven to simplify our builds. This lead to many more benefits that we didn’t expect. It also minimized the overhead costs of extracting, introducing and maintaining new modules. This provided a path for us to move away from a few monolithic slow builds to many small, lightweight fast builds. Using conventions improved cross-team communication. Managing dependencies, versions and performing releases have all become trivial. Maven is a wonderful tool for enhancing agility.