Environment strategies for growing enterprises

Did you ever struggle in your organisation with a feeling that in many software projects and IT organisations in general, environments seems to be among the most difficult things to get right? And did you ever wonder why it can be so hard? Read on! I have asked myself this question many times and even though I always had an intuitive understanding of what is wrong and how it should be fixed, I never managed to verbalise it well. In this article I’ll try to do just that and hopefully you can both recognise the issues I’m pointing to as well as understand the solution I’m proposing and the consequences it implies. <h1>Starting with the end</h1> Let me start with the end and state what I believe to be the core problem and the core solution: <blockquote> Core problem: the industry consensus is based on a set of fallacies of software environment strategies Core solution: the fallacies must be realised and a new set of environment strategy ground rules must be put in place </blockquote> The fallacies are the following: <ul> <li>Fallacy 1: An environment strategy should define a number of environments in alignment with the testing strategy</li> <li>Fallacy 2: The environments should be named according to the purpose of each testing phase.</li> <li>Fallacy 3: There should be the same number of environments across all our systems so that they “fit together”.</li> </ul> <a href="https://nikolaschou.medium.com/environment-strategies-for-growing-enterprises-3d58facde490">Read More</a>