Very interesting observation! Definitely worth some careful thoughts and considerations. And it will become more and more relevant towards the future as evolution becomes more and more continuous.

And I'm personally thinking DOM now.  I have seen already people that made an App for Change & Release Management.  In their case it was about changes in their operational systems, so the configuration of the underlying ecosystem (change of a channel config / line-up for example).  But that's essentially also what you are talking about in a DataMiner System.  So I'm wondering if we should not make some sort of standard App for the DataMiner Community that could be used to collaborate with bigger teams and to keep track of changes, in what stage they are, etc.  That data could be be used to inform users of the platform also (as the data would be easily accessible throughout DataMiner), with a synopsis of what goes into production.  In the same effort, one could maybe also consider using it as some sort of documentation system, as I have the feeling that this is lacking often (e.g. users get a great app, or new workflow, but they not a lot of documentation on how it works and how it is supposed to be used).  Maybe this can somehow be combined with a GitHub source base (similar to dataminer.docs), because I love that set-up as it enables anybody to contribute to the documentation (suggest corrections, add missing information).

Great topic you brought on here!  Because at the end of the day, it is very much also about efficiently communicating with everybody involved, the Devs and the Ops of the DevOps team.