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An enterprise organization is planning to migrate its mission-critical retail application to Google Cloud. The project involves cross-functional stakeholders who have competing priorities:
You are the lead Cloud Architect facilitating the initial discovery sessions. Which facilitation approach should you use to establish a shared understanding of technical constraints and achieve consensus on target architectural outcomes?
Interview each stakeholder group individually to gather isolated requirement documents, and then independently design the cloud architecture to avoid interpersonal conflicts during meetings
Create a standardized cloud reference architecture blueprint before meeting stakeholders, and present it in a broadcast review session for formal executive sign-off
Facilitate a joint discovery workshop to map business objectives to measurable Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and technical constraints, collaboratively analyzing architectural trade-offs across availability, compliance, and cost
Prioritize functional feature requirements from the product team during initial design sprints, while deferring non-functional security, compliance, and disaster recovery constraints until post-deployment testing
Interview each stakeholder group individually to gather isolated requirement documents, and then independently design the cloud architecture to avoid interpersonal conflicts during meetings
Create a standardized cloud reference architecture blueprint before meeting stakeholders, and present it in a broadcast review session for formal executive sign-off
Facilitate a joint discovery workshop to map business objectives to measurable Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and technical constraints, collaboratively analyzing architectural trade-offs across availability, compliance, and cost
Collaborative discovery is an interactive stakeholder management methodology where a Cloud Architect brings together cross-functional business, security, finance, and engineering leaders. The goal is to elicit operational and technical requirements in a shared forum, translating broad business desires into quantified metrics such as Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
This approach directly addresses the challenge of balancing multi-disciplinary organizational needs. Rather than imposing top-down technical choices or allowing one department's priorities to overshadow others, structured workshops provide a transparent mechanism to reconcile technical feasibility, compliance mandates, and business outcomes.
Prioritize functional feature requirements from the product team during initial design sprints, while deferring non-functional security, compliance, and disaster recovery constraints until post-deployment testing
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