I found these two articles that sound like the best possible way to develop Sugar/Suite in a collaborative environment.
The original is for Sugar7. It would be great if someone took a crack at converting to Suite
http://blog.indrek.io/articles/using-ansible-with-sugarcrm-7/
https://github.com/indrekots/sugarcrm-ansible
http://blog.indrek.io/articles/version-control-and-deployment-practices-for-sugarcrm/