Gate 1 Review Notes

Attendees: EARB, Nathalie Gauthier, Kevin Lim, Clare Rees, Jonathan Bailey
Date: 111030Q OCT 18
Location: 330 Sparks 2031

Jon's Notes

• Julie: we're building a platform and applications / use cases

• Simon :

  • what are the business outcomes?

  • why is there a solution in place?

    • this didn't follow the "correct governance process"

• what is relationship between TC EGIS and FGP?

• TC EGIS is a combination of IAAS, PAAS, and SAAS

• we're building a platform that will serve multiple applications

  • is this a project or a program?

    • if a project, what is the MVP?

    • at that time, does it become a program?

  • will each application developed on top of the platform be subject to EARB review?

• data retention plan will be required at Gate 3

  • data extraction -> exit strategy

• we're answering a number of architectural questions that are general TC cloud architecture questions, and not necessarily specific to the TC EGIS project

  • perhaps because there's not a template for TC cloud architecture already in place
    RISK: EARB seems to be assuming the posture of a gatekeeper

• EARB doesn't seem ready for a couple of items:

1. cloud -- geared towards on-premises applications and platforms

2. agile -- seem to prefer BDUF / waterfall

• RISK: EARB seems to be developing a posture that might seek to control the tools that we use (e.g., Chef, Azure DevOps)

• blue/green production environment

  • do we need blue/green for staging as well?

• we might be dragging everyone else along

• Julie can be an important advocate