configuration management

This is a long post, grab a cup of tea... (or better still a beer)

I manage a small team (currently 3 soon 5) of grographically distributed developers developing and maintaining a few (currently 4) projects in different stages of the lifecycle. I am familiar with managing teams developing web applications but up until now my Drupal experience has been largely solo. Developing large Drupal projects and working in a team is relatively new to all the other devs so I see this as an opportunity to encourage a sound development process using the appropriate tools.