For an entire team that knows git, this is the way to go. Our team is composed of non-technical people as well, so blog writing without having to know git was a requirement, thus we made up our own strategy, which is equally as interesting in my opinion: http://dojo4.com/blog/static-is-...

I am using it for my github blog/page. +1

The one issue I saw with jekyll was the long compile times for larger blogs. Is that no longer the case?

Before discovering Jekyll, I was scratching my head figuring out how to manage a website with more than two pages, or learning Wordpress. You can also add a CMS to it. Great tool.