Mercurial workflow for ~15 developers – Should we use named branches?

First, I highly recommend A Guide to Branching in Mercurial

Next, you could push just the current branch: Nudge – A Gentler Version of Push

And maybe you could decide to allow only a head per branch: 32. Prevent a push that would create multiple heads

Other SO questions related to named branches:

• Mercurial: Named Branches vs Multiple Repositories
• Mercurial repository layout for multiple branches