The Service Cloud Consultant Study Guide – Service Cloud Solution Design domain recommends using Case Teams to facilitate collaboration on cases among different departments. Case Teams allow multiple users or roles to work together on a single case, improving visibility and coordination between service and product development teams.

To meet the requirement of alerting the product development team on high-priority cases, the best practice is to use Salesforce Flow (or Process Automation tools) to automatically send notifications, create tasks, or post updates to collaboration tools such as Slack or Chatter when criteria are met (for example, “Priority = High” and “Product = X”).

Escalation Rules are designed for time-based escalation to higher support tiers, not for notifying specific departments. Account Teams facilitate collaboration at the account level, not on specific cases, making them unsuitable for case-specific alerts.

Referenced Salesforce Materials:

Service Cloud Consultant Exam Guide – Service Cloud Solution Design Domain (collaboration and automation design considerations).

Salesforce Help: “Set Up Case Teams” (enables collaboration among different users on cases).

Salesforce Help: “Build Automated Notifications with Flow” (describes how to notify users when case conditions are met).