I have recently joined a team in which the developers were able to work completely in live production to produce business intelligence products for customers.
Recently, management, at the advice of SAP, have moved the team to a 3 tierstage environment
- Develop
- Test
- Production
which require transports between each layer.
The team have accepted this new constraint begrudgingly and no firm business case has been explained to them as to the benefits.
Can anyone articulate the advantages of the 3 tierstage environment or point me to a white paper/case study they recommend?
