governance · version 2026.1
Cloud Decision Rights Overview
A decision-rights map connecting recurring decision classes to one final accountable authority and their execution owners.
Accessible diagram transcript
Objects
- Portfolio priorities: Investment decision (Service ownership)
- Technical standards: Architecture decision (Service ownership)
- Risk acceptance: Control decision (Service ownership)
- Service release: Lifecycle decision (Service ownership)
- Cloud Governance / CCoE: Portfolio authority (Governance)
- Cloud Architecture: Standards authority (Authorities)
- Security & Risk: Risk authority (Authorities)
- Service owner: Release authority (Authorities)
- Platform Engineering: Execution owner (Engineering)
- Cloud Operations: Operational acceptance (Operations)
Directed relationships
- portfolio → ccoe: accountable (accountability)
- standards → architecture: accountable (accountability)
- risk-decision → security: accountable (accountability)
- service-decision → owner: accountable (accountability)
- ccoe → delivery: priorities (handoff)
- architecture → delivery: constraints (authority)
- security → delivery: conditions (authority)
- owner → operations: acceptance (handoff)
When to use it
Use to challenge unclear accountability before building a detailed decision register or RACI.
What to challenge
- Separate accountable authority from delivery execution.
- Make every important handoff directional and reviewable.
- Treat this reference pattern as a starting point, not a prescription.
Adapt it responsibly
- Rename functions to match the organization vocabulary.
- Remove elements that are genuinely out of scope.
- Validate decision rights and handoffs with accountable stakeholders.
Model contents
10 objects and 8 directed relationships. Every object keeps a stable semantic ID.
One model, multiple representations
The browser view and editable file are generated from the same canonical graph, so labels, roles and relationship direction stay aligned.
Clear visual grammar
Shape, color and connector style distinguish actors, governance, authorities, services, engineering, operations and providers.