Hedgehog Development

Collaborate With Confidence

NO MORE PACKAGING

Those three words are music to the ears of any team that has worked with Sitecore, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, and a Source Code Control System. Each developer can now identify changes, iterate their portion of the project, and get their contributions back into the workflow quickly and without worrying about collisions. The Developer's Workbench: Wherever They Want It to Be

You want to provide the most flexible and welcoming environment possible for your highly talented developers. Now they can have the workbench of their dreams wherever they want it to be, freed from worry that being disconnected from the main database will slow them down in any way. Now they can work remotely, then when they reconnect to the network they can sync and merge all of their changes to the source code control system without having to first check and re-check everything before packaging their changes for incorporation.

With Team Development for Sitecore (TDS) there's no more packaging.

Focus on the Code - Not the Dependencies

Many teams have tried assigning different developers to work on different parts of projects with only moderate success. There are still dependencies to worry about and no code exists in a vacuum.

With Team Development for Sitecore you can stop worrying about dependencies and allow your developers to work with complete freedom, focusing on what they need to accomplish rather than worrying about how well it will play with changes others may be making.

Re-Defining Rapid

Now you'll have every member of your team working to full capacity. No more lost time spent checking, verifying, and packaging changes for submission. No more time-consuming testing and re-testing with every build. You'll have new releases out the door in record time when your team is enjoying continuous builds and fully automated deployment with Team Development for Sitecore.

Team Dynamics

A team member is leaving the project? Or the project is getting larger and you need more team members to keep it on schedule?

Add new developers to a project as needed. Team Development for Sitecore makes it easy for you to create a complete new workspace for a new member joining the team, bringing them fully up to speed in record time with source control and commentary on every change that has already taken place. No more waiting for new developers to "figure everything out". With Team Development for Sitecore they simply review the check-in history of Sitecore items and .NET code and get right to work.

Three Magic Words: No More Packaging

Have we mentioned yet that Team Development for Sitecore eliminates the need for packaging your updates? :)

This really cannot be stressed enough because it is so very important to developers to know that their code isn't going to be clobbered by someone else's during new builds, and no developer wants to be guilty of clobbering anyone else!

Now each developer can work with a local database knowing their changes will make it into the next deployment build with no need to invest incredible amounts of time in all of the checking and rechecking that packaging requires.

Deployment environments are built from a single source code control system, and Team Development for Sitecore makes sure changes don't step on each other so team solutions can be deployed from development to quality assurance, all the way to production. Changes are easily merged, with no packaging!!!

Source Control

TDS gives you the ability to keep track of all the Sitecore items in your project, and be able to see who changed what in a Source Code Control System. Using TDS, you will improve the control and overall performance of the team, by giving you all the features and functionality of any modern Source Code Control System.

Having everything in a Source Code Control System gives you one master repository for the project. The Source Code Control System becomes the master and central integration point of all the code and Sitecore items for a team. Even if you are a team of 1, using a Source Code Control system is the smart way to work.

Allows Sitecore items and .NET code to be maintained in your Source Code Control System giving you all the advantages of a source code control system.

• Complete accountability and audit trail for all changes to all Sitecore items and .NET code in a project.
• All of your Sitecore items and code are stored in a single repository, meaning backups are easy to do, making your work safe.
• Developers can work remotely or disconnected from the network and then sync and merge changes at a later date to the source code control system.
• You can easily compare versions of items and code.
• You can rollback to prior versions if there is a problem.
• You can easily merge changes.
• Branching and other advanced source code management techniques can be leveraged.

Single Repository Means Easy Backup

Of course the end of packaging is not the only major benefit of Team Development for Sitecore.

All Sitecore items and all code are stored in a single repository which makes backups simple. No more worrying about whether or not everything is backed up. Just back up the repository!

Easy Rollback

Team Development for Sitecore also makes it easy to compare different versions of each of your items and code. If something you've done turns out to be an error you can simply roll back to a previous version!

See it Come to Life

Nothing builds client enthusiasm like seeing their project truly "come to life" before their eyes. Team Development for Sitecore provides visual graphing of the various Sitecore templates, relationships, and other components which can easily be viewed and reviewed by your designers and developers along with project managers and clients so they can witness as their project comes to life in real time. Any changes or new additions they may require can then quickly be integrated back into the workflow becoming part of the overall solution.

Complete accountability and audit trail for all changes to all Sitecore items and .NET code in a project

The ability to managing the release of a Sitecore project using proven best practices for application development.

• Develop locally.
• Continuous integration to QA and staging environments.
• Convenient MSI install for clients.

Microsoft VSTS Compatibility

Microsoft's Visual Studio Team Services delivers some of the most highly regarded and highly productive development tools available. Team Development for Sitecore not only expands upon these tightly integrated, extensible lifecycle tools, it also facilitates the incorporation of Visual Studio Team Services or Subversion with Sitecore delivering an unparalleled development environment for you and your team.

• Full integration with Visual Studio Team System work item tracking and reporting.
• Project managers and testers can easily track and assign work items
• Testers can report bugs that are assigned to the developers via workflow