There are three types of governance models, and each involves a range of practices, benefits, and drawbacks:
1.- Centralised governance models involve the shift of control to the enterprise or to a specific department and can be used to:
- Centralise decision making, delivery and controls.
- Increase the degree of control.
- Prioritise standard policy and change management needs to meet security, compliance and other corporate issues.
- Establish a centre of excellence (COE).
- Provide a community of practice (COP).
2.- Hybrid governance models, which provide for a partnership between business and IT:
- It provides a balance between the need for centralised control and the need for distributed and democratised delivery.
- Centralise decision-making and security controls.
- Democratise the actual delivery and support of applications.
- Establish a centre of excellence (COE) with combined teams to ensure alignment of business objectives, value tracking and portfolio management.
- Provide a community of practice (COP).
3.- Federated governance models, these types of models are business-led and supported by IT:
- Create working groups made up of software engineers and business technologists.
- Assumes strict compliance with standards and security measures.
- Provides the greatest independence to the business.
- Provides flexibility to developers, who decide on the tools and methods to be used to deliver their initiatives.
- Optionally establish a centre of excellence (COE).
Bring a community of practice (COP) to combined teams.
Some of the information has been partially sourced from the publication What Governance Model Should I Use for RPA and Low-Code Citizen Development Initiatives? written by Saikat Ray.
