Deploying your Salesforce solution through environments

Salesforce deployments come in many forms, and their duration can span a few minutes to many hours or even days for heavily customized, old orgs with limited technical governance.

While what you deploy is unique to your organization and project, the steps for how you deploy your entire solution from one sandbox to another – and finally to production – at an abstract level are as follows:

• Plan deployment: There are two parts to planning a deployment:
  • Organization deployment planning: Make sure you have aligned the following key things with your stakeholders and project team members:
    • What you want to deploy
    • When you want to deploy
    • Who you expect to be part of the deployment, and what they are expected to do
    • Any development freeze periods have been communicated
  • Technical deployment planning: Determine and prepare the following items before starting your deployment:
    • Prepare a release artifact: Depending on your development...