Engagement Paths

Use engagement paths to choose the right parts of the blue book quickly. The paths are starting points, not rigid process gates.

Brownfield assessment path

1. Pre-Engagement Planning
2. Discovery Workshop
3. Document Request List
4. System Evidence Checklist
5. Maturity Model
6. Risk Register
7. Implementation Roadmap
8. Executive Readout

Greenfield platform path

1. Kickoff and Alignment
2. Account and Landing Zone
3. Runtime Platform Patterns
4. Reference Architectures
5. CI Pipeline Standards
6. Operational Readiness
7. Service Onboarding Checklist
8. Handoff and Adoption

Kubernetes rescue path

1. Kubernetes Rescue
2. Kubernetes Playbook
3. Operational Readiness
4. On-Call and Alerting
5. SLO Implementation
6. Security Review Checklist
7. Ranked Backlog

Compliance acceleration path

1. Regulated Industry Readiness
2. Compliance Acceleration
3. Compliance Evidence
4. Access Request Matrix
5. System Evidence Checklist
6. Security and Governance
7. Executive Readout

Cost optimization path

1. Cost Optimization Sprint
2. Cost Management
3. Resource Naming and Tagging
4. Platform Metrics
5. Risk Register
6. Quarterly Business Review

Watchouts

• Start with evidence before recommending tools.
• Use the smallest path that answers the engagement question.
• Add security, reliability, and operations pages when the path touches production systems.
• End every path with owners, backlog, and decision records.