I call this an innovation pipeline. Here is the vision.

• It starts with small innovation projects across the organization.

•   Most fail fast.  
•   •   make it into a first stage integration lab,

    •   where more fail fast.

• Survivors go to a QA lab,

•   where testing teams find and fix integration problems.

• Then they go to a pre-production lab,

•   where testing teams use realistic synthetic workloads to find and fix scale problems.

• And eventually into production,

•   all on a predictable schedule.