In my experience at pharma there has been an enormous divide between R&D and production for software development. Precisely for the compliance implications. In

In my experience at pharma there has been an enormous divide between R&D and production for software development. Precisely for the compliance implications. In cases where it hasn't been a perfect black/white differentiation it was always dirty laundry where some subset of people knew they were sitting in a grey area and hoping that compliance officers/auditors wouldn't notice.