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# Delivery Governance

### Purpose

Governance ensures that delivery remains controlled, visible, and aligned to customer and company objectives.

Governance must support delivery rather than create unnecessary friction.

### Governance Principles

We use governance to:

* make decisions at the right level
* keep delivery moving
* manage risk and issues
* protect commercial position
* assure quality
* maintain customer confidence
* create evidence
* support escalation when needed

### Governance Cadence

A typical governance cadence includes:

* daily team stand-up
* weekly delivery review
* weekly customer checkpoint
* fortnightly show and tell
* monthly steering review
* milestone acceptance review
* retrospective at the end of each iteration

### Governance Artifacts

Each engagement should maintain:

* delivery plan
* roadmap
* backlog
* RAID log
* change log
* decision log
* dependency log
* milestone tracker
* acceptance register
* commercial tracker