How to design IT Environment Management strategy?

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• Software organizations across the globe are
  adopting agile testing methodologies and this is
  the core reason why managing test environments is
  becoming more challenging.
• Business requirements are changing and evolving
  with time and you need solid and superior IT
  environment management to ensure that you deliver
  high-quality, error-free products promptly.
• Furthermore, it also has impacted the test cases
  and smooth coordination and quick communication
  among the teams and other stakeholders are highly
  crucial.
• Optimizing costs and accelerating speed of the
  delivery are two crucial goals of the IT
  departments and you can achieve both of these
  goals by employing available IT environment
  management tools and other methodologies such as
  automation and virtualization of testing and
  continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• On top of all, designing a strategy to manage IT
  environments in an agile methodology is the need
  of the hour. In this post, we will discuss how to
  design one.

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• Mapping the strategy
• Test Environment Management is the process of
  using validated, stable, and usable test
  environments to execute test scenarios.
• Most of the time, organizations don't know the
  full potential of IT test environment management.
• Poorly managing test environments results in
  higher operational costs, poor quality of the
  final product, and no or lower availability of
  test environments.
• Also, when an organization migrates from a
  traditional way of testing the product from an
  agile environment.
• The reason is simple A single project running in
  an agile methodology will have multiple releases
  and multiple iterations.
• As the IT test environment manager, you need to
  offer a test environment that is highly
  configured. It is a challenging task and you need
  to ensure that the process runs smoothly.
• Some of the components of a robust IT environment
  management strategy are discussed below

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• Service integration by creating a unified team
  model
• Managing IT environments in the agile methodology
  is quite challenging as teams need to manage
  different IT environments until all the
  iterations are finished.
• Also, the agile testing methodology needs
  on-demand provisioning and the right
  configurations.
• A unified test environment management model with
  the help of IT environment management tools
  ensures seamless communication and coordination
  between teams.
• Here, the model also allows stakeholders to
  establish a single point of contact for any types
  of requirements and other activities.
• During all the activities such as test
  infrastructure management, test data management,
  deployment, and communication, there will be
  seamless coordination among teams to speed up the
  process and to save operational costs.

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Holistic environment management in an agile world
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• If you want to build a seamless IT environment
  management model for your organization, you need
  to first understand the elements of test
  environments. There are two layers of the test
  environment lifecycle
• Also Read Factors Determining The Success Of The
  TEM
• Infrastructure layer
• Application and Operations layer
• Now, the test environment team must have complete
  ownership of these two layers.
• The teams need to conduct all the activities such
  as environment provisioning, allocation of
  resources and environments to other teams,
  support and maintenance, and environmental
  clean-up and other activities.

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• Service automation continuous integration and
  continuous delivery
• One of the most noticeable things of agile
  testing is that each release program has multiple
  releases and they generate a working product at
  the end of each iteration.
• Here, test environments have specific demands
  that must be met by the environment management
  team and it is the most challenging task for the
  team.
• Multiple iterations also increase the volume of
  work and the number of changes in product
  development.To save time and costs, the team
  needs to increase the automation footprint in all
  facets of the delivery process.
• There is no manual intervention so there are no
  errors and other issues with the product.
• Service automation will also ensure quick ROI
  generation and reduce errors and bugs in the
  final product. The organizational efficiency and
  speed of the testing process will also improve.

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• Service optimization adherence to best practices
• TEM managers must understand the existing test
  environment model and map it to the test
  environment strategy document to get the best
  outcomes.
• Best service optimization practices ensure that
  they align well with ITIL standards.
  Understanding the existing operating model before
  designing the strategy will help them to come up
  with the best strategy.
• Conclusion
• The demand for the agile testing model is
  increasing in the IT-sphere and organizations are
  under pressure to manage their IT environments
  proficiently and accurately.
• You need to have superior communication and
  coordination between teams to get the best out of
  them.
• Service integration, service automation, and
  service optimization are three key areas that you
  need to work on to design a strategy for the best
  IT environment management.
• This way, you can develop sustainable test
  environments that can adapt to agile
  methodologies.

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