Workflow governance
The policies, processes, and controls that manage how automations are created, approved, deployed, and retired. Enterprise workflow governance prevents unauthorised automations, ensures documentation standards, and controls access to production systems.
Expert insight
Workflow governance (who can create, edit, and approve production automations) matters more once more than one or two people are building workflows, without it, the same integration might get built twice by two different people unaware of each other's work, or a critical workflow gets edited by someone without the context to know what it depends on.
In a real workflow
Every production workflow has an owner, documentation, an approval before changes and a review each quarter.
Common mistakes
- Governance so heavy nobody follows it.
- No inventory of workflows.
Complexity level
Requires some familiarity with automation concepts.
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