What should you do if you want to ensure your scratch org is consistent with project standards?

Using a Project Template is essential for ensuring that your scratch org aligns with the established project standards. Project Templates in Copado allow you to define a consistent set of metadata and configuration settings that reflect the desired architecture and practices for your project. When you create a scratch org from a template, it automatically includes the specified configurations, ensuring that all team members are working within the same predefined framework, which fosters uniformity across development environments.

This consistency is critical for collaboration, as it minimizes discrepancies between different developers' environments and helps to adhere to best practices. The template could include specific settings related to managed packages, profiles, permission sets, and any other settings that are important for your project, thus making it easier for the team to maintain project integrity and quality.

While communication with the team about changes, updating local documentation, and conducting a deployment review are all valuable practices in managing a successful development workflow, these actions do not inherently guarantee that the scratch org itself will be instantiated in accordance with the project standards as effectively as employing a Project Template does.