Grant Fritchey (7/31/2012)
Just a question, changes are getting made to the production server directly and then you need those brought down to dev and we're not talking data?I'd say the process is backwards. You should always be deploying upwards. If you put your database into source control and manage it the same way you do app code, you should be able to rebuild a dev environment at any given moment (minus the data). At least, that's how I helped manage about 15 different development teams.
🙂 99.99999 % of the time yes, at the minute we are just going live with a big project that is massively overdue and its like final tweaks, although the final tweaks have been dragging a bit, (in fact even in this instamce it should really be that way, its just come to boiling point where its got to be done yesterday and all resource is on it)
the process will change to a dev, staging, live situations as soon as the system is live