Provide Guardrails, Not Gates, for Decision-Making

This standard mandates the provision of guardrails, not gates, for decision-making to ensure autonomy is enabled within safe constraints.

1. Provide Guardrails, Not Gates, for Decision-Making:

Ensure autonomy is enabled within safe constraints. This approach ensures that teams can make decisions quickly while adhering to necessary constraints.

• 1.1 Lightweight Governance Models:
  • 1.1.1 Independent Decision-Making:
    • Establish lightweight governance models that allow fast, independent decision-making.
    • Automate the documentation of governance models.
  • 1.1.2 Model Implementation:
    • Automate the implementation of governance models.
    • Implement model tutorials.
• 1.2 Automated Policies and Compliance Checks:
  • 1.2.1 Manual Approval Replacement:
    • Replace manual approvals with automated policies and compliance checks.
    • Automate the execution of compliance checks.
  • 1.2.2 Policy Management:
    • Automate the tracking of compliance results.
    • Implement policy feedback collection.
• 1.3 Engineering Playbooks and Reference Architectures:
  • 1.3.1 Decision Guidance:
    • Use engineering playbooks, design principles, and reference architectures to guide decision-making.
    • Automate the distribution of playbooks.
  • 1.3.2 Architecture Management:
    • Automate the tracking of reference architecture usage.
    • Implement architecture tutorials.

By providing guardrails, organisations can enable autonomy while ensuring compliance.

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