Managing team based SharePoint development scenarios

If you are starting on a SharePoint development you will need to start thinking about how you will manage and provide a team based development environment for building and deploying solutions for SharePoint. Even in a scenario where you are about to deploy a medium SharePoint environment then you will need to address the following points in order to cater for a team based development approach. If you are a jack of all trades developer who does everything you can stop reading now. But in most cases organisations will have a number of developers working together to build and develop solutions to be deployed to SharePoint.