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The role of a test environment manager is not as easy as it seems. During such unexpected events, a test environment management person needs to allocate infrastructure and personnel to the required departments. <br>
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How Crucial is Test Environment Management in Organizations?
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 managementperson 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.
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.
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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