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Governance

Project: Interact - Employee Engagement & Gamification Platform
Last Updated: January 14, 2026


Overview

This document defines governance structure, policies, and decision-making processes for the Interact platform.


Governance Structure

Product Owner

  • Role: Final product decisions
  • Responsibilities: Roadmap, priorities, feature approval
  • Authority: Accept/reject features, change scope

Engineering Lead

  • Role: Technical decisions
  • Responsibilities: Architecture, code quality, technical debt
  • Authority: Approve technical designs, merge decisions

Security Officer

  • Role: Security oversight
  • Responsibilities: Security policies, audits, incident response
  • Authority: Block releases for security issues

Decision-Making

Product Decisions

  • Process: RFC (Request for Comments)
  • Approval: Product Owner + stakeholder review
  • Documentation: Update PRD.md, FEATURE_ROADMAP.md

Technical Decisions

  • Process: ADR (Architecture Decision Record)
  • Approval: Engineering Lead + team review
  • Documentation: Create ADR in ADR/ folder

Security Decisions

  • Process: Security review
  • Approval: Security Officer
  • Documentation: Update docs/security/

Change Management

Code Changes

  1. Create feature branch
  2. Implement with tests
  3. Code review (1+ approval)
  4. Merge to main
  5. Deploy to staging
  6. Smoke test
  7. Deploy to production

Infrastructure Changes

  1. Document proposed change
  2. Security review
  3. Test in staging
  4. Schedule maintenance window
  5. Apply change
  6. Verify and monitor

Compliance

Requirements

  • GDPR compliance (EU users)
  • SOC 2 Type II (enterprise customers)
  • Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA)

Audits

  • Security: Quarterly
  • Privacy: Bi-annually
  • Accessibility: Annually

Risk Management

Risk Assessment

  • Identify risks quarterly
  • Prioritize by likelihood × impact
  • Assign ownership
  • Track mitigation progress

Risk Register

  • Document in THREAT-MODEL.md
  • Review in team meetings
  • Update when new risks emerge

Communication

Internal

  • Weekly team sync
  • Monthly all-hands
  • Quarterly roadmap review

External

  • Release notes with each deploy
  • Security advisories (as needed)
  • Transparency reports (annually)

Related Documentation


Document Owner: Leadership Team
Last Updated: January 14, 2026