You manage a product development organization. Some of your teams determine that they need access to a $$production$-$like$$ test environment so that they can assess the scalability of their application as they build it$.$ Current processes stipulate that expensive $$production$-$like$$ test environments are only available as part of final application acceptance testing, just prior to releasing the application to production. Earlier access is not possible since other teams are using the pre$-$production test environments. Which two of the following strategies would you pursue?