This document discusses how continuous integration can help improve development processes by building projects better, faster, and cheaper. It outlines five risks of not using continuous integration, including fixing bugs late, lack of team cohesion, poor code quality, lack of project visibility, and lack of deployable software. The document then provides an overview of what continuous integration is, examples of tools that can be used to enable it like Ant and Maven, and describes what a typical continuous integration workflow looks like, including source control, automated testing, and notifications. It encourages adopting continuous integration to help build higher quality projects more efficiently.