There are several things that I would suggest, in moving from a single developer to team development dynamic:
Source Control is critical (personal pref - VSS doesn't cut it, go to SVN or Git) Developers should/must setup/maintain their own development environments Development and initial testing should be done locally (on user's desktop), QA and final testing on a centralized staging server, then finally deploy to production Local, Staging, and Production environments should match each other as closely as possible Establish a good set of Coding Guidelines, that everyone on the team must follow going forward Write standardized naming conventions (in your Coding Guidelines) of variables, directory and file structure, db architecture, HTML id's and classes, etc. Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Co-Author of "Learning Ext JS" http://www.packtpub.com/learning-ext-js/book _____________________________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com On 10/20/2009 8:13 AM, Eric Cobb wrote: > A friend of mine originally asked this question on LinkedIn's ColdFusion > Programmers group but didn't get much response, so I told him I would > post it here to see what you guys thought. His original post can be > seen here: http://bit.ly/4aJjes > > Here's his post: > > "I have been the primary developer on an application for a number of > years and we have recently gotten the additional resources to bring on 3 > more programmers. > > I am excited and terrified. We have a Visual Source Safe environment set > up for file sharing management, but I am curious if anyone has made this > transition and has any tips for how to head off issues down the road. > > The application is somewhat modular, but certainly not to an object > oriented extent. I am no project manager and am fearful that without > proper planning we are going to be stepping on each other's toes an > awful lot. " > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327372 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
