Best practice to move things between various environments in SharePoint 2013

Hi All SharePoint Gurus!! - I was using SP deployment wizard to move Sites/lists/libraries/items etc. using SP Deployment Wizard (spdeploymentwizard.codeplex.com) in SP 2010. We just upgraded to SP 2013. I have few Lists and Libraries that I need to push
into the Staging 2013 and Production 2013 environment from Development 2013 environment. SP Deployment Wizard is throwing error right from the startup. I checked SP 2013 provides granular backups but is restricted to Lists/Library level. Could anybody
let me know if SP Deployment Wizard works for 2013? I love that tool. Also, Whats the best practice to move things between various environments?
Regards,
Khushi
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