MO-002

Go to Mission Objectives

Statement

Crucible SHALL achieve a Platform Deployment duration that is less than the approved Deployment Baseline and within the applicable acceptance criteria.

Source Statement

Crucible SHALL reduce platform deployment timelines from months to days or hours through automation.

Source

Crucible System Requirements Specification, Version 1.1 Draft, Mission Objectives, MO-002.

Assessment

The source statement expresses the approved mission objective but does not provide the information required for deterministic verification.

The following Specification Discipline and Authoring findings apply:

Platform deployment timelines does not identify the beginning and end of the measured activityFrom months does not define the approved baseline duration, baseline process, environment, scope, or measurement methodTo days or hours provides alternative and unbounded target ranges rather than a single applicable acceptance criterionThrough automation prescribes an implementation approach rather than the required outcomeThe source statement does not identify which Platform Deployment activities contribute to the measured durationThe source statement does not identify whether image construction, compliance assessment, dependency capture, infrastructure deployment, provisioning, and post deployment validation occur within the measured durationThe normalized Statement expresses the required outcome as a measurable reduction relative to an approved Deployment Baseline and applicable acceptance criteria.

Rationale

Organizations often require weeks or months to construct, configure, secure, validate, and deploy a platform environment through manual or partially automated processes.

Crucible reduces Platform Deployment duration by coordinating:

Reusable BaselinesBaseline CompositionImage LayersInfrastructure BaselinesMachine Image constructionInfrastructure DeploymentProvisioningCompliance assessmentDeployment validationCI/CD Pipeline executionControlled execution replaces repeated manual activity and supports comparison against an approved Deployment Baseline.

Applies To

This requirement applies to:

constructionInfrastructure DeploymentPlatform DeploymentProvisioningCompliance assessmentDeployment validationConnected EnvironmentsDisconnected EnvironmentsAir-Gapped EnvironmentsCI/CD PipelinesOperational Lifecycle

Verification

Verification SHALL confirm that the approved Deployment Baseline identifies the baseline process, environment scope, starting event, ending event, and measured durationVerification SHALL confirm that the applicable acceptance criteria identify the maximum permitted Platform Deployment durationVerification SHALL confirm that Crucible performs the applicable Platform Deployment activities from controlled inputsVerification SHALL confirm that the measured Platform Deployment duration is less than the approved Deployment BaselineVerification SHALL confirm that the measured Platform Deployment duration satisfies the applicable acceptance criteriaVerification SHALL confirm that repeated tests use equivalent environment scope, controlled inputs, measurement boundaries, and acceptance criteriaVerification SHALL confirm that failed or incomplete deployments are excluded from successful deployment duration results and recorded separatelyVerification may include:

Baseline process timingBaseline Composition timingMachine Image build timingInfrastructure Deployment timingProvisioning timingCompliance assessment timingDeployment validation timingEnd-to-end CI/CD Pipeline timingConnected environment demonstrationsDisconnected environment demonstrationsAir-Gapped Environment demonstrationsRepeated deployment comparisonsThe verification record SHALL identify:

The approved Deployment BaselineThe baseline measurement methodThe baseline environment scopeThe baseline starting eventThe baseline ending eventThe baseline durationThe applicable acceptance criteriaThe controlled inputsThe measured Platform Deployment activitiesThe measured starting eventThe measured ending eventThe measured durationThe difference between the baseline duration and measured durationThe verification resultThe supporting Evidence

Traceability

This requirement supports:

KVP identifies a Key Value Proposition requirement.

This requirement also relates to:

ConOps Relationship

The Crucible Concept of Operations describes Phase 1 as a command-line utility invoked through CI/CD Pipeline steps.

The Phase 1 workflow:

Composes Image Layers and Infrastructure BaselinesBuilds and hardens Machine ImagesCaptures dependencies and Compliance FindingsPerforms Infrastructure DeploymentPerforms ProvisioningExecutes deployment validationProduces supporting EvidenceThe coordinated workflow reduces manual handoffs and repeated engineering activity. The measured reduction depends on an approved Deployment Baseline and acceptance criteria for the applicable environment.

Delivery Phase

Phase 1 and subsequent phases

Implementation Status

Not Assessed

Implementation status requires measurement against an approved Deployment Baseline and applicable acceptance criteria.

Requirement Status

Draft

The source System Requirements Specification identifies Version 1.1 as a draft.

Notes for Editors

This requirement page should retain the stable requirement identifier `MO-002`.

Changes to the Statement SHALL preserve the approved intent of the source requirement.

Material changes should receive review and should update the related Traceability, verification criteria, acceptance criteria, and source records.

The Source Statement should preserve the original wording from the controlling System Requirements Specification.

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