You now have all of the necessary information about the current environment, business requirements, and goals, and have considered the different scenarios to meet the needs of the end users. You can now consider what the production environment will look like. This is where things start to get serious. You have tested your solution, proved the concept, piloted with a subset of your users, built a business case, and signed it off. Now is the time to start rolling out to your agreed user base.

This will happen in several ways, but initially, it's worth starting this slowly and gathering momentum over time. By gathering momentum in this way, you can guarantee success, and less tuning is required along the way. The big bang approach will end in a world of pain, both for the users and for you when you have so many things to consider when looking at issues.

In the next section, we are going to look at designing for production deployment.