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Is the digital service efficient all along its lifespan ?

Recommendation 

Software Design Sustainable IT

B People

A Planet

A Prosperity

Difficulty

**

Priority

High

Récurrence

Once

Tests

Does the service provide bug fixing updates all along its lifespan?

Precisions

Technical improvements and bug fixing are frequent during lifespan of a service. The latter must stay up and usable without any heavy device upgrade.

Use Case

Project

Additional elements

Operational issues related to the project

Posts

Rule for assessing the level of compliance of the criterion

Formalized = 100 ; Planned = 75 ; Identified = 50 ; Ignored = 0 / 100

Life cycle

Déploiement

5 other criteria related to the recommendation: Anticipate the operation of services

Recommendation Essential

Life cycle

Are the environments other than production (DEV, QA, ...) switched off or decommissioned outside the ranges of use (at night, outside the test periods) ?

Recommendation

Sustainable IT Infrastructure

Are methods in place to measure the actual consumption of the code in production and allow accurate sizing ?

Recommendation

Sustainable IT Infrastructure

Is the hosting of applications densified ?

Recommendation

Life cycle

Are unused production environments outside of peak loads turned off or decommissioned ?

Recommendation

Software Design Sustainable IT

Are the definitions of SLA and QoS for each of the functions of the application architecture specified in accordance with the business uses ?