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User Roles for Team Development
Access to Team Development is useful for stakeholders both inside and outside the development team. The team lead
and senior developers should have access to Team Development. Access by junior developers depends on the team's
culture and trust level. Interested stakeholders who are outside the development team could include the project
manager, test team, and the business analysts.
Access to the APEX development environment is controlled in the APEX Administration area under the Manage
Users and Groups menu. This area maintains the list of APEX users, dictating what level of access the user has
(see Figure
15-34
). An outside stakeholder is set up without administrator and developer privileges; however, the Team
Development Access field is set to Yes. When they log in to the APEX development environment, they see only the Team
Development area and nothing else. There is only one problem at this time with this scenario: outside stakeholders
can't see the applications in the Application drop-down lists. We hope this will be fixed in an upcoming patch.
Figure 15-34.
Account Privileges for a project manager, tester, or business analyst
Summary
Team Development is a software-development tool that has been tailored to work in the APEX development
environment. The five main entities (features, milestones, to-dos, bugs, and feedback) work together in a framework
that is simple, extensible, and flexible. Teams that embrace agile software development methodologies will find
APEX's Team Development tool to be a comfortable fit with their culture.
