How To Improve Salesforce Development And Delivery?

Salesforce is a market-leading cloud provider that has taken customer relationship management to the next level with its connected AI-powered business intelligence capabilities. A common complaint leveled against Salesforce’s SFDC is that deployment is complex and time-consuming, resulting in slower development and delivery times. It’s important to note that Salesforce depends on other systems, applications, and integrations for successful Salesforce development.

Salesforce development and delivery

Determine your results

The most important approach to creating a successful Salesforce SFDC development and delivery system is to focus on the end goals, have stable results, and then develop a timeline and list of development activities to get you there. Create a release management strategy so your developers can plan and manage their deployments at all stages of development, staging, and production process. Developing a framework for release and iteration is also part of this process.

Implement DevOps in the deployment pipeline

When your SFDC Salesforce team completes coding and configuration, these elements go through the deployment process. Automating and implementing DevOps on this channel is an effective way to eliminate the many delays that hold Salesforce teams back. A deployment pipeline can include system integration testing, user acceptance testing, required code and configuration testing, cross-context testing, and finally production.

Release small changes often

Releasing small changes in batches reduces the risks that happen with large releases. With automation, you can apply all approved changes and configurations to different code sets.

Software development lifecycle

Source control repository: Create a separate Git repository for each project with a default or master branch. The master branch will contain the production metadata, and instead of using this master branch, different developers can work on multiple branches of the development project created by the release manager. Clear parameters are set for developers to ensure everyone is working with the end product and results. This eliminates the risk of deviations that result in problems later.

Development: Developers can work on production in sandboxes so that the main production code is not affected.

Testing: Testing and QA team also manage quarantines for code testing, either partial or full quarantines. Acceptance testing is a test where a project is tested for user acceptance, with potential users making sure that the solution meets all expectations and quality standards.

Understand the architecture

Before starting Salesforce development, try to thoroughly understand Salesforce’s metadata-driven SFDC architecture, API, dataflows, and database, including all schemas, value components, and communication between different servers.

Knowledge of the architecture also extends to the differences between the underlying Salesforce platforms and the many applications that are integrated into them. Learning and understanding platform architecture includes both logical and physical architecture.

Conclusion

The success of your company’s Salesforce SFDC development and delivery can be tied to the tools you choose, the end-to-end deployment solutions you implement, and how much planning and coordination goes into the process.