Checklist for planning your environment strategy
Organization environment and tenant strategy
Done? | Task |
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✓ | Define your environment and tenant strategies and get approval from all key stakeholders, including business, IT, security, and compliance. |
✓ | Consider the future growth of your solution and how it will affect your environment and tenant needs. |
✓ | Support your application lifecycle management (ALM) processes and automation with your environment and tenant strategy. |
✓ | Consider the short- and long-term impact of your environment and tenant strategy on licensing, compliance, application design, performance, scalability, maintainability, and ALM of your solution. |
✓ | Plan for potential citizen development scenarios or collaborative development with both IT and business users. |
✓ | Create an environment planning matrix with the pros and cons of your environment and tenant strategy to help you visualize the impact. |
Environment app strategy
Done? | Task |
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✓ | Define the guidelines for adding more apps to your organization environment. |
✓ | Assess the impact of adding more apps on your data estate. Avoid too much fragmentation and reuse existing integrations and data flows as much as possible. |
Global deployment
Done? | Task |
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✓ | Coordinate and agree on your environment and tenant strategy with your regional stakeholders. |
✓ | Assess the network latency and choose the optimal location for your environments and data. |
Governance and control
Done? | Task |
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✓ | Establish governance processes for provisioning, monitoring, managing the lifecycle, and decommissioning the environments early on. |
✓ | Understand and properly assign the different security roles involved in managing your environments. |
✓ | Use the Center of Excellence (CoE) Starter Kit to adjust your governance and control for citizen development scenarios as needed. |
Next steps
- Learn about environment strategy
- Define the right tenant strategy
- Learn about the key factors that are affected by an environment strategy
- Learn about global deployment scenarios
- Understand environment lifecycle scenarios
- Get product-specific guidance
- Read a case study of a company that learned the importance of a good environment strategy