###Guiding Principles
Enterprise Platforms has established a set of guiding principles to inspire our day-to-day activities and drive the behaviors that will help us truly achieve our mission and vision
- Cloud-First - whenever feasible, realize the benefits of cloud-based infrastructure
- Agility - adopt modular, service-oriented design
- Quality - ensure the overall quality of software running on the Bureau’s platforms
- Sustainability - solutions must be engineered in a way as to be efficiently maintained by the Bureau
- Reliability - provide consistent support and working applications to our business line customers
- Security - security of our data and applications is a top priority
- Transparency and Consistency - apply a transparent, enterprise-wide approach to platform
- Partnership - equitably share and consolidate costs, resources, and expertise for enterprise success
- Shared Data - support the goal of CFPB data vs business line data
- Reuse – whenever feasible, reuse and build from existing assets
- User Empowerment – empower users to help themselves and leverage best practices in user-centered design