Step 2: Requirements

📊 Progress: Step 2 of 4 ⏱️ Estimated Time: 3-4 hours

Executive Summary

In this step, you’ll define the specific functional and non-functional requirements for IFS’s AI Hub. By clearly documenting technical, security, governance, and operational needs, you’ll establish a comprehensive framework that will guide your architecture design and ensure that the solution addresses all stakeholder concerns.

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This section is part of the IFS AI Hub Challenge. Here, you’ll identify and document the business, technical, and governance requirements for a centralized AI Hub.

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    A[🚀 Start] --> B[📝 Step 1 Scenario]
    B --> C[📋 Step 2 Requirements]
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    D --> E[📊 Step 4 Presentation]
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🎯 Objective

Capture all critical requirements—network, access, secrets, monitoring, governance, and scalability—that must be addressed in your solution.

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📝 Activities

  • Review your findings from Step 1 (Scenario).
  • As a team, discuss and document:
    1. Network Isolation: What are the requirements for private endpoints, VNet integration, and secure cross-VNet connectivity?
    2. Access Control: What are the requirements for secure gateways, authentication, authorization, and traffic management?
    3. Secrets Management: What are the requirements for centralized secret storage, secure access, rotation, and auditing?
    4. Monitoring & Logging: What are the requirements for logging, monitoring, usage tracking, and security event alerting?
    5. Governance: What are the requirements for policy enforcement, resource management, compliance, and cost control?
    6. Scalability: What are the requirements for supporting multiple workloads and onboarding new services?

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Guidance

Best Practice: Reference the Azure Best Practices and Azure OpenAI baseline Landing Zone reference architecture for security, governance, and operational recommendations.

  • Use bullet points or tables for clarity.
  • Prioritize requirements as “Must Have” or “Nice to Have”.
  • Consider both current and future needs.

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Success Criteria ✅

By the end of this step, you should have:

  • ✓ Documented requirements for each major area (network, access, secrets, monitoring, governance, scalability)
  • ✓ Prioritized requirements and aligned them with business needs
  • ✓ Ensured requirements reflect lessons learned from the RAG chatbot implementation

To successfully complete this step, ensure your requirements are specific, measurable, and address all key aspects of the AI Hub solution.

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