SPEED-BOK v1.4.7

Governance and Compliance

Maintaining the records, decisions, and accountability the program requires.

Programs without governance drift; programs without compliance cannot prove what they do. This is a continuous practice every role participates in — not a separate department imposing rules.

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Core tasks

Decision-record maintenance

Ensure every structural decision produces a decision record, linked into the canon it governs.

Steering-file discipline

Keep small, governed files describing how specific topics — credentials, security, dependencies — are handled.

Canonical-drift monitoring

Periodically compare canon to actual behavior and raise gaps.

Compliance attestation

Translate the continuous streams of evidence into the formats regulators, partners, or auditors require.

Access and authority accounting

Ensure who can do what is defined, reviewed, and kept current.

From knowing to running

Knowing SPEED and running it are two different things. When you're ready to practice the methodology inside a program that runs it, the implementor path is where you begin.

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