Checklist for planning your environment strategy

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.

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