Project 3

Platform integrations

Wiring Backstage into documentation, work tracking, artifact management, scorecards, templates, and landing-zone workflows.

Work breakdown

Completed

Backstage core capability analysis and planning artifacts

Source date: July 31-August 3, 2026
Specific workCreated a core-capabilities epic analysis and Backstage user-journey documents for team discussion.
Team Lead contributionTurned broad platform requirements into shared planning and documentation artifacts.
Backstage SME contributionMapped Backstage capabilities across authentication, authorization, onboarding, entity views, templates, TechDocs, Grafana, Jira, ServiceNow, and infrastructure operations.
Outcome / statusFiles were authored and shared.
Follow-upUse the analysis to complete refresh validation and user-journey documentation.
Jira / deliverableCORE_CAPABILITIES_EPIC_ANALYSIS.md; Backstage User Journey.md.
Supporting sources: CORE_CAPABILITIES_EPIC_ANALYSIS.md; Backstage User Journey.md
Ongoing

Jira integration and plugin access dependency

Source date: August 12-13, 2026
Specific workSupported the Backstage-with-Jira workstream while service-account onboarding was reopened and routed for access resolution.
Team Lead contributionTracked the dependency in pod status and kept integration work visible.
Backstage SME contributionProvided the Backstage integration context, while implementation ownership was assigned to Justin.
Outcome / statusIn progress on August 13.
Follow-upConfirm access, continue integration, validate refreshed-instance behavior.
Jira / deliverableJira integration deliverable; references Jira as a required entity-view capability.
Supporting sources: Daily Status Report - Shared Services project 08/12/2026; Daily Status Report - Shared Services project 08/13/2026
Ongoing

TechDocs, scorecards, Nexus, and plugin user journeys

Source date: August 3-13, 2026
Specific workReviewed TechDocs and code-quality work, continued plugin user-journey documentation, and supported work to onboard internal Nexus and add plugin annotations to scorecards.
Team Lead contributionReviewed teammate deliverables, provided setup guidance, and connected work to the refreshed plugin structure.
Backstage SME contributionApplied Backstage template, TechDocs, plugin, scorecard, entity annotation, and catalog knowledge.
Outcome / statusTechDocs template integration was marked done on August 7; user journeys, scorecards, and Nexus were still in progress.
Follow-upFinish user journeys, key annotations, Nexus onboarding, and refreshed plugin wiring.
Supporting sources: Daily Status Report - Shared Services project 08/07/2026; Daily Status Report - Shared Services project 08/13/2026
Planned

Network and landing-zone integration with Backstage

Source date: August 13-14, 2026
Specific workParticipated in planning for higher-level network-owned Terraform modules and Backstage landing-zone templates.
Team Lead contributionJoined cross-pod integration discussions and helped keep platform-template decisions connected to Backstage delivery.
Backstage SME contributionContributed Backstage template and integration context.
Outcome / statusPlanned follow-up after the new module is ready.
Follow-upTest the higher-level module, hold follow-up review, and finalize template integration.
Jira / deliverableLanding-zone epic.
Supporting sources: Network/Platform Pods: Integration with Backstage, transcribed; Platform Pod: Backstage Landing Zone Template Planning, not transcribed