Stages
Some important dot points that highlight a stage are:
Discovery
- Diverge to converge on a plan.
- Use the activity kit to build knowledge.
- Set governance and standards.
- Tech spike high-risk issues.
- Establish a backlog of functional requirements.
- Set goalposts for non-functional requirements.
- Promote, fork, and merge a bot plan.
- Create a communication plan with the user base.
- Complete at least one milestone.
Modernisation
- Execute the plan with one or more milestones.
- Harden the target environments and monitor.
- Emphasise the data-driven pipeline reports.
- Communicate milestones to users.
- Adhere to governance and standards.
Optimisation
- The DevOps checklist is the standard that must be kept.
- Keep pipelines green.
- Monitor the target environments.
- Bug fixes.
- Upgrades and patches.
- Make improvements.
- Open-ended milestones without an end date.
- Adhere to governance and standards.
