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Principles and baseline
The common minimum and the space for local decisions.
Purpose
A policy matters when someone can act on it. KDV connects what you want to govern, who can decide, how work flows and what demonstrates that it works.
Minimum baseline
Every shared product needs ownership, a contract, a classification, policy-based access and an audit trail. Each ecosystem adapts role names, approval routes, thresholds and review cadences around that minimum.
- Named ownership
- Versioned contract
- Classification
- Access by policy
- Auditability
Local adaptation
Keep the baseline visible while adapting names, review routes, thresholds and delivery tools. Record the scope, approver and reason for an exception. A local variation should not silently remove ownership or make a decision untraceable.
Five operating layers
Principles & policies
What must hold true. Purpose, classification, retention and the minimum governance baseline.
Organisation & roles
Who decides and delivers. Explicit owners and stewards, with responsibilities assigned at the right scope.
Processes & decisions
How work moves. Cultivate, govern, share and activate, with review and exception paths.
Controls & enablers
How rules take effect. Contracts, quality checks, access policies, catalogues and operational safeguards.
Evidence & improvement
How we know and learn. Decision records, test results, usage, incidents and agreed outcome measures.
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