Governance as an enabling system
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In this lesson
frame governance as a way to make good decisions fast, not to approve everything.
Planned topics
- Governance answers three questions: who decides, by what principles, and how quickly.
- At 20 teams, central approval of every design becomes the bottleneck.
- Good governance moves decisions to the lowest level that has the context.
- Its tools are principles, reference architectures, decision rights, and light review.
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Demonstration
a contrast diagram: a central board funnel with a queue versus a layered model where teams decide within guardrails and escalate only cross-team choices.
Check your understanding
Why does a review board for everything fail at scale?
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Queues grow, teams wait or bypass, and the board lacks context.
Practice
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