Governing your Salesforce project in the development phase

There are many things happening in the development phase of your Salesforce project, and it can be overwhelming to comprehend it all and get an overview. Your responsibility in the building and testing of your initial release is simple:

To create an environment, a structure, and processes to maximize the high-quality value output of your development team.

At a high level, you want to ensure your agile development team is:

• Building the right thing: This means ensuring your Salesforce solution will:
  • Be well received and used by the end users
  • Meet your objectives and financial targets set out in your business case
• Efficient: This involves making sure your agile development team is building your solution in the most efficient manner possible:
  • Value: Output x quality
  • Cost-efficient

In the following sections, we’ll break down what this means in practice.

Salesforce project governance

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