Summary

Planning your delivery strategy in advance using the proper sandbox architecture and knowing the pros and cons of every kind of organization can be critical to the success of your project. Once you and your release management team are satisfied with the strategy, you can deploy changes across organizations using change sets or put automatic delivery in place using tools such as the Force.com Migration Tool (running on Ant).

Once the metadata has been released, you can move data from organization to organization using the Import Wizard or Data Loader. The path to production release can seem hard, but don't worry—you now know about all the tools that can leverage for your Salesforce platform.

In the next chapter, we'll cover some advanced aspects regarding data modeling with relationships, validation rules, and picklist field management.