How Crucial is the Test Environment Management in Organizations?

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How Crucial
is Test Environment Management in Organizations?

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• The role of a test environment manager is not as
  easy as it seems. Allocating resources and
  personnel to different processes in a fast-paced
  environment is quite complex, especially when
  conditions are changing rapidly.
• There are many instances you can find on the
  public domains where projects failed due to
  incompetency of test environment managers and it
  might hurt organizations very severely.
• There are instances when the project falls behind
  the schedule or more often than not, projects
  might arrive at testing and verification ahead of
  schedule. During such unexpected events, a test
  environment management person needs to allocate
  infrastructure and personnel to the required
  departments.
• Being a test environment manager, you might not
  get a single holiday during a big project
  development cycle.
• You will be in constant touch with developers,
  testers, infrastructure personnel and other
  people such as impatient users and developers. It
  will be a challenging task for the manager to not
  lose control.

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• Why is Test environment management vital?
• Most of the time departments usually come with
  requests such as "I need a new test environment
  tomorrow." The obvious reply from the test
  environment manager would be NO as he knows it is
  not as simple and streamlined as it seems.
• Sometimes, managers might shuffle resources to
  address your demand for a new test environment,
  but it is not possible all the times.
  Furthermore, the budget allocated to the test
  environment manager is always limited and getting
  approval for an additional amount is always a
  headache.
• There is one possibility that you can explore to
  allocate a new test environment to a group.
  However, it will depend on whether other groups
  are using test environments sensibly and
  responsibly or not. For example, a group has
  reserved a test environment for 2 weeks, but the
  need is only for 3 days.
• In such cases, you can be able to give a new test
  environment to a new group. However, you need a
  sound test environment management tool to keep a
  track of all the resources, teams and other
  crucial information. Without a tool, you would
  not be able to get insights about what is
  happening with your environments.

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• The scenario without a proper test environment
  management would be full of chaos and
  difficulties and confusions. Project teams would
  be working very hard to complete the projects in
  a budget and on time and they would be told that
  there are not enough QA environments as of now so
  you need to wait.
• Teams and developers have to wait for their turn
  and it will affect the scheduled delivery and
  budget too. It is something that no one wants and
  it can be addressed swiftly with the good test
  environment management.
• Also, some organizations use the strategy called
  permanent allocation of environments to the
  important projects. It might help them in the
  short run, but the main issue here is massive
  inefficiencies and lost opportunities for reclaim
  and reuse of environments.
• Conclusion
• IT test environment management is the ideal way
  to develop efficiency and cohesiveness among
  teams when they have to work collaboratively. It
  will also save time, money and efforts of an
  organization.

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