BDC Governance Model

As of 2026-05-29

A BDC governance model is the operating system for every other discipline — roles, policies, decision rights that make BDC trustworthy at scale vs a sprawl of ungoverned products. Design it early; retrofitting onto a sprawl is far harder. Federated (data-mesh) is the model that scales: central sets STANDARDS (what "certified" means, classification taxonomy, access principles), domain teams OWN/steward their products within them (M033/M080) — neither centralised bottleneck nor decentralised chaos. Roles: platform owner, data-product owners/stewards (M080), space/access admins (M081), governance council. Ambiguous ownership → orphan products + finger-pointing. Policies span every discipline as enforceable rule: catalog/classification (M080), access (M081), privacy (M082), lineage (M077), quality contracts (M033), retention (M071), AI/agent governance (M046/M049) — the model is the index assigning each an owner. Standards make self-service safe (trust products you didn't build). Honest (§0i/§0h): only real if enforced + lived; heavy bureaucratic governance that drives workarounds is also failure — aim for ENOUGH governance.