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Stewardship Governance

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Stewardship Governance

Define post-release governance, stewardship owners, inputs, cadence, routing rules, decisions, escalation, and governance updates.

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Template purpose

Use this template to define how the system is governed after release, pilot, review, or deployment.

Stewardship governance ensures that operational evidence becomes learning, learning becomes action, and action is routed into the next engineering cycle.

Project

<Project name>

Document control

Field Value
Artifact owner <owner>
Primary reviewers <reviewers>
Status <draft / in review / accepted / revised>
Last updated <YYYY-MM-DD>
Related Area Stewardship governance
Project workspace target docs/project-workspace/governance/stewardship_governance.md

Stewardship responsibilities

Area Owner Responsibility Evidence
Product Stewardship <owner> <responsibility> <evidence>
Architecture Stewardship <owner> <responsibility> <evidence>
Security Stewardship <owner> <responsibility> <evidence>
AI Stewardship <owner> <responsibility> <evidence>
Evidence Stewardship <owner> <responsibility> <evidence>
Operational Stewardship <owner> <responsibility> <evidence>
Governance Stewardship <owner> <responsibility> <evidence>

Stewardship inputs

Input Source Required?
Operations monitoring summary docs/project-workspace/monitoring/operations_monitoring_summary.md <yes/no>
Incident log docs/project-workspace/monitoring/incident_log.md <yes/no>
User feedback docs/project-workspace/monitoring/user_feedback_log.md <yes/no>
Risk updates docs/project-workspace/monitoring/risk_and_issue_updates.md <yes/no>
Lessons learned docs/project-workspace/stewardship/lessons_learned.md <yes/no>
Improvement backlog docs/project-workspace/stewardship/technical_debt_and_improvement_backlog.md <yes/no>
Next-cycle recommendations docs/project-workspace/stewardship/next_cycle_recommendations.md <yes/no>

Stewardship review cadence

<cadence>

Next-cycle routing rules

Issue Type Route
Vision or value issue ES-101
Requirement issue ES-102
Planning issue ES-103
Architecture issue ES-104
Design issue ES-105
Implementation readiness issue ES-106
Implementation issue ES-107
Integration issue ES-108
Testing issue ES-109
Release issue ES-110
Operational readiness issue ES-111
Deployment issue ES-112
Monitoring issue ES-113
Learning or governance issue ES-114

Stewardship decisions

Decision Evidence Owner Status Follow-Up
<decision> <evidence> <owner> <status> <follow-up>

Stewardship escalation triggers

Trigger Escalate To Evidence
<trigger> <authority> <evidence>

Governance updates from stewardship

Update Rationale Owner Route
<update> <rationale> <owner> <route>

Stewardship governance decision

<decision>

Review checklist

  • [ ] Stewardship responsibilities are assigned.
  • [ ] Inputs are linked to evidence.
  • [ ] Review cadence is defined.
  • [ ] Next-cycle routing rules are clear.
  • [ ] Stewardship decisions are recorded.
  • [ ] Escalation triggers are defined.
  • [ ] Governance updates are routed.

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