software governance Articles
Browse 5 articles about software governance.
Decentralize the Building. Centralize the Seeing.
The two motions look contradictory: push building to the edges, pull visibility to the center. They only conflict when every tool is a separate island.
Who Reviews the Apps Your Employees Build?
When employees build their own software, someone must review it for correctness, data access, and risk, and code review can't scale to it. Here's what does.
Banning Shadow IT Just Drives It Underground
Prohibition doesn't stop employees solving problems with software—it just makes the solving invisible. The winning move is to make building sanctioned and observable, not banned.
IT Doesn't Disappear When Everyone Can Build—It Moves Up the Stack
When domain experts build their own tools, IT doesn't shrink—it moves up the stack: from ticket-queue construction crew to the platform and review function.
The Winning Org in the AI Era: Everyone Builds, Nothing Hidden
The companies that win with AI won't be the ones with the biggest budget. They'll be the ones that let everyone build software while leadership keeps full visibility across it all.