So, how do you test things out?

Hello,
I wanted to get some data from the community about how you all have your "test/dev" environment setup, and see how it compares to what we've been running.
We have two seperate SCCM sites, one we call "prod" and the other we call "test." We try out new things in test before bringing them to prod, and try to only update content in prod once per month, during a maintenance window. This doesn't
always work out, however, since we have to tweak things regularly to get things to work or to fix issues that pop up.
Does this seem like overkill or too much overhead? Could we get by with one SCCM site and still have the ability to test things out?
We are ONLY using SCCM for OSD, btw (weird, I know). We use LANDesk for everything else.

In my opinion it's overkill. Others with more knowledge and experience might disagree.
In production we have one environment with one site code. It is in the production environment that I do all my application install and OSD development. I have a virtual machine that I test on and I haven't run into any problems so far. I'm very careful about
what is deployed to where though. I think the biggest risk in not having a dev environment is accidentally doing something you didn't mean to. For example we've had Visio installed on all our servers by accident once. But that is the risk of doing stuff in
production, and if you believe the risk is too great then having a dev environment is probably the way to go.

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