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Checklist for planning your environment strategy

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Organization environment and tenant strategy

Done? Task
✓ 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
✓ 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
✓ 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
✓ 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.

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