Glossary

Versioning and reapproval

The regime by which every material change to a process, rule, data item, service level, offering or indicator is versioned and re-approved.

The regime by which every material change to a process, rule, data item, service level, offering or indicator is versioned and re-approved. Change is assessed not by technical effort but by its impact on the traceability chain.

It is what stops an approved process from becoming, through minor adjustments, a different one nobody approved. Each small change looks harmless; twelve of them over a year change the objective of the process.

Related terms

Architecture contract

The instrument governing implementation and deployment to ensure conformance with the defined architecture.

Document management

The custody market for documents — versions, permissions, retention, signature, evidence. The current name of what was once content services platforms, and before that ECM.

Impact matrix

The analysis of which artifacts a change affects, which tests must be repeated and what must be re-approved.

Post-go-live governance

The set of practices that preserve architectural coherence after go-live: reviewing the catalog and capability map, re-approving processes when they change, and evolving the data model by design.