What are the best practices for a small distributed team which will work on a Drupal project?

Question

after some research, we opted for working with Drupal on our next project and we are a distributed team.

Since Drupal stores (based on what we saw until now) all it

Answer 1

I see this is an OLD post with regards to Drupal configuration management. For now in 2013 I will definitely recommend going full with the features module. This allows you to place configuration in code and use version control (I recommend git) to pass the files across your environments. There are a few caveats but it works for the most part. For the caveats, using the tips mentioned in the accepted answer will help to mitigate the confusion