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Chapter 12 — Governance Responsibilities

Governance Responsibility Model

Responsibilities shall be explicitly assigned.

No governance responsibility shall remain undefined or implicitly assumed.


Architecture Board

The Architecture Board is responsible for:

  • approving constitutional governance;
  • maintaining constitutional governance;
  • approving Architecture Change Control;
  • ensuring governance consistency;
  • providing governance stewardship.

Engineering Organization

The Engineering Organization is responsible for:

  • engineering specifications;
  • engineering implementation;
  • engineering verification;
  • engineering configuration;
  • engineering release.

Engineering organizations shall not modify constitutional governance.


Configuration Authority

Configuration Authority is responsible for:

  • maintaining configuration integrity;
  • managing governance baselines;
  • controlling engineering baselines;
  • ensuring release traceability.

Engineering Baseline Owners

Engineering Baseline Owners are responsible for:

  • specification quality;
  • implementation quality;
  • verification completeness;
  • release readiness.