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My organization is just starting to roll out use of Power Platform. As we do that, we are starting to implement governance around the platform.
 
We are debating on the right number of environments for users (beyond CoE toolkit, platform feature testing, etc.):

On one hand: Default for personal productivity and one production environment for shared.
 
On the other hand: Default for personal productivity and an environment per business unit for sharing.
 
The first option seems simpler and easier, but we’ve not worked with a platform like this before and worry there will be a lot of overhead required by our centralized team.
 
The second option feels like it can get away from us just as easily, but would give us more options for distributing responsibilities to BUs and make “charge back” much simpler (as our cost center is currently stuck with all the expense).
 
What do we need to take into consideration to make this call? Are there any suggestions from the community?
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    ankit_singhal Profile Picture
    618 Moderator on at
    Hi,

    As per the process we should have 4 environments. One for development, second for system testing done by QA, 3 for UAT (business testing) and last one production. We have one more Pre deployment where we test all the deployment steps before the production. 
    this process will give you confidence before the production release and we followed CI.CD pipeline approach for the deployment.
     
     
    Note: Please mark verified, if it is useful for you  
  • Mitchell GC Profile Picture
    11 on at
    Ankit,
     
    That aligns with our standard SDLC approach. Thank you!
     
    What kind of overhead does this introduce to the platform support team? How do you mitigate them from becoming a bottleneck for innovation using the platform?
     
    For more context, we have an enterprise license and about a thousand people. Our desired target for active usage a year from now is about a hundred individuals. Our platform admin support group is only 5 people.
  • Mitchell GC Profile Picture
    11 on at
    Ankit,
     
    I'm sorry for the instant follow-up, but I forgot to ask for clarification! 
     
    For the development environment, are you talking about a "Production" type environment that is explicitly used for development work, or "Development" type environment(s)? 
  • ankit_singhal Profile Picture
    618 Moderator on at
    Hi ,
     
    We have non prod environment (development env) as Sandbox and only one environment is production. Also, you can deploy your solution in same way on SIT, UAT and production. There is no change in deployment using CI/CD, 

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