Project: Interact - Employee Engagement & Gamification Platform
Last Updated: January 14, 2026
This document defines governance structure, policies, and decision-making processes for the Interact platform.
- Role: Final product decisions
- Responsibilities: Roadmap, priorities, feature approval
- Authority: Accept/reject features, change scope
- Role: Technical decisions
- Responsibilities: Architecture, code quality, technical debt
- Authority: Approve technical designs, merge decisions
- Role: Security oversight
- Responsibilities: Security policies, audits, incident response
- Authority: Block releases for security issues
- Process: RFC (Request for Comments)
- Approval: Product Owner + stakeholder review
- Documentation: Update PRD.md, FEATURE_ROADMAP.md
- Process: ADR (Architecture Decision Record)
- Approval: Engineering Lead + team review
- Documentation: Create ADR in ADR/ folder
- Process: Security review
- Approval: Security Officer
- Documentation: Update docs/security/
- Create feature branch
- Implement with tests
- Code review (1+ approval)
- Merge to main
- Deploy to staging
- Smoke test
- Deploy to production
- Document proposed change
- Security review
- Test in staging
- Schedule maintenance window
- Apply change
- Verify and monitor
- GDPR compliance (EU users)
- SOC 2 Type II (enterprise customers)
- Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)
- Security: Quarterly
- Privacy: Bi-annually
- Accessibility: Annually
- Identify risks quarterly
- Prioritize by likelihood × impact
- Assign ownership
- Track mitigation progress
- Document in THREAT-MODEL.md
- Review in team meetings
- Update when new risks emerge
- Weekly team sync
- Monthly all-hands
- Quarterly roadmap review
- Release notes with each deploy
- Security advisories (as needed)
- Transparency reports (annually)
- ADR/README.md - Decision records
- THREAT-MODEL.md - Security risks
- DATA-PRIVACY.md - Privacy governance
Document Owner: Leadership Team
Last Updated: January 14, 2026