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Administering Cloud EPM: The Platform Beneath the Business Processes · Module 17 · The EPM Center of Excellence

Standards and governance

Lesson 191 of 201 · 2 min

The standards a CoE owns. You have built every one of these. Naming conventions — environments, groups, roles, automation. The access model and its review cadence. The security decision log. The automation runbook. The recovery plan and its test record. The operating calendar. The client and browser standard. And the onboarding pack. THE CoE IS WHAT MAKES THEM DURABLE RATHER THAN PERSONAL. Right now they are yours. That is the difference this module is about. The change control question: what requires approval before it happens? A useful minimum: identity and security changes, role model changes, anything affecting production availability, and new integrations. The decision log. Every significant decision, its rationale, its owner and its date. This is what makes an estate maintainable by a successor, and what makes a security review survivable. GOVERNANCE THAT ADDS FRICTION WITHOUT ADDING SAFETY. If the process is heavier than the risk, people route around

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In this module: Module 17 · The EPM Center of Excellence

  1. 1Why the last module and not the first
  2. 2What a Center of Excellence is
  3. 3The capability inventory
  4. 4Staffing and roles
  5. 5Standards and governance
  6. 6The operating model
  7. 7Making the case
  8. 8What breaks
  9. 9Lab: assess the capability and write the one-page proposal
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