Requirements
If you’ve been following along, you’ll have a few things already prepared:
- Informal scope: You’ve spent some time thinking about the scope of your planning, but you (purposefully) haven’t documented it yet. In Chapter 3, Building an Architecture – Scope and Requirements, we went through the process of defining an informal scope. In this chapter, we will build on that to arrive at an actual recordable design scope.
- Existing landscape: In the last chapter (Chapter 4, Building an Architecture – Your Toolbox), we talked about strategies to understand what you have in place now. This ideally includes an understanding of existing constraints that you’ll need to account for and plan around (recall the gap analysis discussion), as well as an understanding of what is in place already so that you can look for areas of efficiency during the implementation process. Some projects will start with a blue ocean—meaning...
