Ensure Governance Stage

The purpose of the value stream stage “Ensure Governance” is to provide methods that guide consistent and compliant Digital Product deliverables. This should include the use of reference architectures, building blocks, patterns, and templates. The deliverables for this value stream stage are guardrails, integrated repositories, enablers, audit definitions, and Architecture Principles.

Table 1. Ensure Governance Value Stream Stage

Entrance Criteria:

  • Scope Agreements with initial funding and Architecture Roadmap Items

Exit Criteria:

  • Defined guardrails, integrated repositories, enablers, audit definitions, and Architecture Principles

Value Item:

  • Secure, high quality, cost effective, consumer-friendly Digital Product

Activities:

  • Should develop guardrails for adherence to technology standards and policies

  • Should create repositories that ensure the traceability of the Digital Product artifacts from Strategy to Development and into Operations to Retirement

  • Should confirm the use of enablers (reference architectures, building blocks, patterns, templates)

Examples of Participating Stakeholders:

  • Business Analyst

  • Business Stakeholder

  • Chief Security Officer

  • Enterprise Architect

  • External Stakeholder

  • Product Manager

  • Product Portfolio Manager

  • Vendor Manager

Participating Data Objects (Component):