Using governance with decision services

The decision governance framework provides you with tools to implement changes to your decision services in a controlled, secure, and structured development environment.

It is based on the management of releases and activities, and the distribution of tasks between users with specific governance roles. To understand the main aspects of governance, see Governance principles.

Typically, the purpose of a release is to implement one or more changes to the business policy. The release is composed of change activities, and each change activity usually contains changes to a single business policy. Releases can also contain validation activities, which are used for testing and validating the change activities within the release. To know more about how to manage changes through releases and activities, see Managing changes with the decision governance framework.

This structure for managing changes is enforced by a review cycle. When changes are made to an activity or release, they need to be reviewed and approved, before the activity or release can be marked as complete and deployed. This ensures that only users with the proper responsibilities can approve a release and deploy it.

To delve deeper into how decision governance works with Decision Center, see the IBM® Governance Redbook: Governing Operational Decisions in an Enterprise Scalable Way External link opens a new window or tab .

Decision governance can be helpful, especially for larger teams, because it facilitates the decision-making process and makes changes easier to trace and review.