Wrapping up the whiteboarding session
After completing the whiteboarding session, you should have a high-level overview architecture that illustrates the main components of the pipeline that you plan to build. At this point, there will still be a lot of questions that have been left unanswered and there will not be a lot of specific detail. However, the high-level architecture should be enough to get broad agreement from stakeholders on the proposed plans for the project. It should have also provided you with enough information that you can start on a detailed design and set up follow-up sessions as required.
Some of the information that you should have after the session includes the following:
- A good understanding of who the data consumers for this project will be
- For each category of data consumer, a good idea of what type of tools they would use to access the data (SQL, visualization tools, and so on)
- An understanding of the internal and external data sources...
