Course 1.7 · Curriculum 2026.1
Release management without a sandbox horror story
Ship a change to production and be able to reverse it. Sandboxes, change sets, source control, and the deploy that blanked a credential.
- Estimated effort
- 4 hr
- Lessons
- 34
- Modules
- 6
- Material
- 4 hr
Estimated effort is the sum of the lesson and lab times in the course outline, for this version of the course.
This course is planned and not on sale. The curriculum below is the plan, and it may change before the course opens.
See the courses on sale01What you will learn
7 capabilities, stated as things you can do
Each one is what you should be able to do at the end, not what the course covers. If an outcome is not testable, it is not an outcome.
- Choose a sandbox type by what you need to test, and know what data each one carries.
- Move a change to production by change set, and say where change sets stop being enough.
- Read a deployment error and fix the cause rather than removing the component.
- Keep metadata in source control, and explain what version control buys an admin.
- Write a deployment plan with a rollback step that someone else could execute.
- Name the four things that do not deploy and must be set by hand after every release.
- Run a release under a change freeze without blocking urgent fixes.
02Curriculum
6 modules, 34 lessons
Every lesson shows its length and its type, from the course outline.
6 modules · 34 lessons · 4 hr of material
Four types, four refresh intervals, four data stories. Picking wrong costs you either fidelity or a 29-day wait.
- VideoDeveloper, Developer Pro, Partial Copy and FullPreview6 min
- ReadingRefresh intervals, and planning around a 29-day lock7 min
- VideoSandbox data: seeding, masking, and the email that went to a real customer6 min
- VideoScratch orgs, briefly, and when they beat a sandbox7 min
- VideoChoosing a sandbox type by what you actually need to test6 min
- LabLab: plan a release calendar around four sandboxes’ refresh windows6 min
Change sets, unmanaged packages and the metadata API. Plus the components that silently do not travel.
- VideoChange sets end to end, including the validation-only deploy7 min
- VideoInbound versus outbound change sets, and the org pair set up first6 min
- ReadingWhat a change set cannot carry, and the workaround for each7 min
- VideoReading a deployment failure honestly6 min
- VideoPartial deployment, and the setting that is safer left off7 min
- LabLab: deploy a flow, a field and a permission set, then reverse it6 min
Named credential passwords, remote site secrets, some picklist value sets and record ownership. Each is a post-deploy step in your plan.
- VideoThe four things that never deployNamed credential passwords, remote site secrets, some picklist value sets and record ownership. Each one is a post-deploy step in your plan.6 min
- VideoThe named credential whose password is blanked on every redeployRedeploying a named credential from source control blanks its password and silently breaks whatever depends on it.7 min
- ReadingRemote site settings, and the callout that worked in the sandbox and not in production6 min
- VideoRecord ownership and picklist value sets: the other two that do not travel7 min
- LabLab: write the post-deploy checklist for a release with two of the four6 min
A concurrent deploy silently stripped a tab from the live app six minutes after ours shipped. Coordination is a release control, not a courtesy.
- VideoThe deploy that stripped a tab six minutes laterA concurrent deploy silently stripped a tab from the live app six minutes after ours shipped, with no error on either side.6 min
- VideoTwo deploys racing each other, and why the second one wins6 min
- ReadingA local copy of an app file that was missing another team’s just-shipped tab7 min
- VideoCoordinating a release window when more than one team can deploy6 min
- VideoVerifying an app’s tab set after any deploy that touches it7 min
- LabLab: reconstruct an app definition from two conflicting local copies6 min
Git without the software-engineering course attached. What it buys you, and the smallest useful workflow.
- VideoWhat version control buys an admin who writes no code7 min
- VideoRetrieving metadata, committing it, and reading a diff6 min
- ReadingA deployment plan with a rollback step6 min
- VideoBranches, and the smallest useful workflow for one admin7 min
- VideoPackage.xml, and retrieving exactly what you mean to6 min
- LabLab: put an org’s flows under version control7 min
A rollback plan someone else could execute, and a release calendar that survives a change freeze without blocking a genuine emergency.
- VideoRunning a release under a change freeze without blocking urgent fixes7 min
- VideoA rollback plan someone else could execute without you in the room6 min
- ReadingThe release note that saves the next debugging session an hour7 min
- LabLab: write a deployment plan with a rollback step for a real changeThe capstone lab. Plan a real deployment including the named credential and the tab it could silently affect.24 min
- QuizCheck: release management10 min
04Before you start
What you need first
Assumed knowledge and setup
- Course 1.4, because most of what you will deploy is flows.
- Access to at least one sandbox, or a Developer Edition org plus a scratch org.
- Git basics help but are taught from zero in module three.
Before this course
Courses often taken next
Each is a separate course, bought on its own.
05Who teaches it
Ege Taskent
Salesforce Developer, Certified Platform Administrator
The credential, and the rollout. The half of an implementation where people actually start using the thing.
Salesforce Certified Platform Administrator
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- Assessment
- Lesson checks onlyThis course carries lesson checks and issues no certificate.
- Curriculum version
- 2026.1You enrol into a version. Content changes do not move you mid-course, and your required-lesson count is snapshotted at enrollment.
- Refunds
- 14 daysAn individual purchase can be refunded within 14 days if you have completed less than 20% of the lessons. Team seats are refundable before they are assigned. From the Academy terms.
Start 1.7
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- 4 hr estimated effort, labs included
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