The way you deploy Salesforce changes is slowing you down

Managing a large amount of changes in a Salesforce environment throughout a project can be a tough undertaking. For mid to large projects, it can become a nightmare to keep everyone on a team informed of the changes and allow them to work without minimal interruption.

One way to keep these changes from clashing with each other is to use Source Tracked sandboxes.

The steps are straightforward once you have learned to use them. First, enable DevHub and Source Tracking for Sandboxes. Then, create a DX Project. Next, create a sandbox environment from your Salesforce production instance. This can be the sandbox that you will build in from now on. Every other team member that builds will have their own as well. Once you’ve built and finished carving out the perfect solution to your problem, you can use this sandbox to push your changes back to your target org. Other developers can then inspect the differences on the target org and then decide to pull/push org push changes to the target org themselves. This keeps everyone in sync and informed of the changes.

Isolated, source-tracked sandbox environments are the easiest and fastest way to see rapid delivery of the features you care about. Try it and you will not be disappointed.