Gate 1 Review Notes

Owned by Diego Cesa de Meira (Unlicensed)
Aug 19, 2019
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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