Best Practice Report development

Hi All,
I am working on a blue print for a BI 7.0 project and I am searching for some information regarding a best practice for the development of queries in the three environments within SAP development/quality/production. I was wondering if there is some documentation which SAP explains the best way to use the different environments within SAP. So what are the important things to keep in consideration when building queries.
So what are the do's and which things are the absolutely dont's?
Please advise me if you know where  I can find information regarding this topic..
Thanks in advance!
Kindest regards,
Jens

Hello Jens!
Just some experiences from me. Maybe they will help.
- Differ between standard reports and ad hoc reports. Standard reports are build in dev from BW-Team and transported to prod. Ad hoc reports can be build in all systems from bw power users. Standard reports should only be changeable in dev.
- Dev should only be for developers. Hold testdata in you quality-system so that users can test changes here.
Best regards,
Peter

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