# Develop

Building high-quality decision logic in Nected follows a structured development lifecycle that includes authoring, testing, reviewing, and preparing changes for deployment. Nected provides a dedicated set of tools that help developers, product teams, and operations teams collaborate efficiently while maintaining consistency and governance across environments.

Whether you're iterating on Rules, Workflows, Integrations, or Datasets, the features in this section support every phase of the development cycle—from local testing to multi-branch Git workflows.

Below are the core development capabilities available to you in Nected:

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