NRM SDLC - Design

• Whiteboard sessions are scheduled at various stages of the project to ensure that the direction being taken is following Natural Resource Sector IM/IT standards.

  The purpose of a whiteboard session is to bring together the necessary business and technical resources to determine the best approach and best practices to:

  • Address a business need using information technology;
  • Address a technology issue relating to an application or service provided by the Information Management Branch (IMB); or
  • Achieve decisions that will allow the work to go forward.

  There are different types of whiteboards carried out at different times within a project as identified in Usage Within the SDLC.

  • Feasibility Whiteboard – is used to define the business problem and identify potential system solutions that may be viable within the Ministry standard deployments.
  • Technical Whiteboard – is used to confirm the design solution identified by the vendor will fit within the Ministry standard deployment patterns and confirms the technology and servers to be used.
  • Warehouse Whiteboard – is used to get agreement from both DataBC and the operational resources on what and how data will be replicated to the data warehouse.

  Standards/Guidelines

  Send an email to NRIDS Standards Enquiries if you have a question on this process.

  Templates

  A whiteboard checklist is available to assist in asking the right questions and documenting the results of the whiteboard sessions:

  • NRS Whiteboard Checklist (DOCX)

  Deliverable Requisite

  A whiteboard session is mandatory for all project complexity levels.

  It is expected NRS Projects continue using Whiteboards and Technical Advisory Group (TAG) and Architecture Review Board (ARB) is not intended to replace either Whiteboards or TAGs. If at a Whiteboard or TAG, a solution is recommended that does not conform to NRS architecture, the project must proceed with an ARB Submission and receive exemption before advancing with that solution.

  Samples

  There is no sample currently available.

• NRS Standards for Modeling with EA - Design (PDF)
• NRS EA Template (EAP)

• Logical Physical Model Transformation (PDF)
• Physical Data Modelling Standards (PDF)

• Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) Information Security Policy

For a project, specialized workstations, hardware or software may be required.  These must be ordered using the NRS Business Service Desk request forms.