Organization Requirement # 7
Provide the appropriate technical environments
- Development Environments (Playground) setup early
- Reinforces information from training courses
- Allows the project team to begin “experimenting” with solutions
- Must be available with the first 4 to 6 weeks of the project
- A playground for report development
- Testing Environments (The Practice Pad)
- Keep the configuration and data as close to real as possible
- Stress Testing, Integration Testing, Interface & Conversion Testing
- Production Environment (The “Real McCoy”)
- Keep it clean through the conversion of data and Go-Live
- Identify processes to copy data from the test environment to minimize early “hands on” contact