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An enterprise is planning a major cloud modernization initiative to migrate its legacy applications to Google Cloud. During executive planning sessions, conflicting priorities arise between key stakeholder groups:
As the lead Cloud Architect, you need to facilitate alignment and secure executive commitment for the cloud transformation roadmap.
Which approach should you take to build consensus among these stakeholders?
Bypass security and governance gates for initial application migrations to satisfy business go-to-market deadlines, planning to retrofit security controls in a later operational phase.
Adopt the Security team's complete target architecture immediately as mandatory prerequisites, and instruct the Product teams to postpone feature delivery until all controls are verified.
Establish separate, independent cloud environments for business units and security teams so each group can build and manage infrastructure according to their own conflicting priorities.
Conduct a collaborative architecture trade-off workshop to establish shared Key Results, and define a phased modernization roadmap where foundational security controls and high-value business features are delivered incrementally.
Bypass security and governance gates for initial application migrations to satisfy business go-to-market deadlines, planning to retrofit security controls in a later operational phase.
Adopt the Security team's complete target architecture immediately as mandatory prerequisites, and instruct the Product teams to postpone feature delivery until all controls are verified.
Establish separate, independent cloud environments for business units and security teams so each group can build and manage infrastructure according to their own conflicting priorities.
Conduct a collaborative architecture trade-off workshop to establish shared Key Results, and define a phased modernization roadmap where foundational security controls and high-value business features are delivered incrementally.
Collaborative facilitation involves bringing diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders together to map business drivers directly to architectural requirements. By establishing shared Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), a Cloud Architect bridges the gap between disparate team goals and creates mutual accountability across business, security, and finance domains.
Rather than forcing a binary decision between rapid feature delivery and robust compliance, a phased architectural roadmap aligns technical controls with measurable business milestones. This provides all stakeholders with clear visibility, balanced compromises, and confidence in the transformation plan.
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