Leadership wants to buy an MDM platform before domains, match rules, or success metrics are defined. What sequencing should the candidate recommend?
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Short Explanation
Buying the platform before you know what you’re mastering is like picking a truck before you know the cargo. Domains, rules, and metrics first—then the tool.
Full Explanation
When leadership wants to buy an MDM platform before domains, match rules, or success metrics are defined, recommend defining priority domains, rules, and measurable outcomes before locking into a vendor platform. Requirements-first sequencing protects civic spend. Signing the largest multi-year license first and inventing requirements afterward fails procurement discipline. Skipping requirements to copy another city’s unfinished RFP verbatim fails local fitness. Choosing the flashiest demo and postponing stewardship roles indefinitely fails operating-model readiness. Exam caveat: define domains, rules, and outcomes before vendor lock-in. Operational check: produce a short requirements pack (domains, match/survivorship needs, KPIs, stewardship model), then evaluate vendors against it. Make municipal purchase approval contingent on that pack and a steward staffing plan. Keep verification evidence with the municipal runbook so audits can prove the chosen control was applied as designed and that rejected alternatives would have left city services exposed to the failure modes described above. Keep verification evidence with the municipal runbook so audits can prove the chosen control was applied as designed and that rejected alternatives would have left city services exposed to the failure modes described above.