Documentation / Practices
Applying the model
Move from an operating decision to a suitable implementation.
Purpose
KDV product documentation is a reference implementation and includes proposals as well as deployed components. This knowledge base expresses an operating model, not a product availability promise. Consumer, Producer, EcOps and PlatOps are supporting interaction perspectives. Other technologies and manual practices can implement the same responsibility model.
Working sequence
- Map the decision and accountable roles before selecting tools.
- Agree the minimum artefacts: domain charter, contract, access decision and evidence register.
- Choose an implementation for catalogue, identity, policy enforcement, quality and recovery.
- Separate the business structure from execution environments and infrastructure naming.
- Automate a control only after its rule, scope, failure path and owner are understood.
- Start with one product, review evidence and expand deliberately.
Five operating layers
Principles & policies
Purpose, classification, retention and the minimum governance baseline.
Organisation & roles
Explicit owners and stewards, with responsibilities assigned at the right scope.
Processes & decisions
Cultivate, govern, share and activate, with review and exception paths.
Controls & enablers
Contracts, quality checks, access policies, catalogues and operational safeguards.
Evidence & improvement
Decision records, test results, usage, incidents and agreed outcome measures.
Review questions
- Who can decide, and is the acting role explicit?
- What rule or agreement authorises the action?
- What evidence demonstrates execution and its limitations?
- When will the outcome or exception be reviewed?
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Original KDV Framework knowledge. Working community edition 0.1. CC BY 4.0. References retain their owners’ rights; no official assessment or certification is implied.