CLOUD NATIVE
QUESTIONNAIRE
Business
Economics
• How critical is the application to your business? • What is your budget?
• How frequently does it change? • What is your time frame?
• Who are your customers? • What are the expected cost savings and
revenue generation?
• Internal or external?
• Visual or transactional use of the system?
Technology
• What are the non-functional requirements
• What is the commonly accepted definition of
(e.g., SLAs)?
cloud native
• What is the lifespan of the application?
• What data privacy/compliance restrictions are there?
• What is your release strategy?
• How are things monetized (SaaS vs. legacy)?
Is this changing?
• Describe your SDLC.
• What is your tech stack?
• Where are you deploying your application
(on premises, public cloud, hybrid cloud, etc.)?
• Is this a multi-tenant application, and if so,
how do you plan to provide customers an
assurance of security?
Scorecard
What are your business or
technical objectives?
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List ways to measure progress toward the objective.
This should be the same for most, if not all, clients