The enterprise needs to determine the organizational structure for supporting asset governance and development. The
enterprise may use a less rigorous style or may pursue a heavily governed approach.
There are several asset governance and development organization templates to choose from. These are intended to
represent major characteristics, and to be adjusted to meet the needs of the enterprise.
There are several characteristics describing each organization template, including:
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Reuse scope: the intended reuse visibility, either the reuse is targeted within the community or
across multiple communities at the enterprise level
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Governance board: the number and kind of governance boards, where they sit in the organization,
and who funds them
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Domain experts: from where do the subject matter experts come to support asset manufacturing
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Produce: the location and resources creating, updating, supporting assets, and who funds them
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Manage: the location of the resources managing the repository and who funds them
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Use: the techniques and formality for reuse; the use of assets may be planned and/or
opportunistic; planned use of assets implies the governance boards and those producing assets prepare the assets
and policies with the knowledge of targeted consumers' needs, and those consumers have direction to use assets as
part of their work
The organization templates are presented in increasing order of formality. There are pros and cons to each of the
templates. The templates should be considered as starting points that you can refine to meet the needs of your
enterprise.
There is a loose relationship between the maturity of an organization and the specific template to use. Maturity
includes several key principles such as:
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process maturity, the organization's processes are formalized and executed
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cultural acceptance of assets and reuse has been attained
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reuse opportunities exist within the named reuse scope
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funding and sponsorship has been determined
A mature organization has improved operational success with asset governance and asset-based development in the more
formal organization templates presented here. However, a mature organization may determine to start with less formal
organization templates and migrate to more formal organization templates when ready, whereas a less mature organization
should stay with the less formal organization templates.
The less formal organization templates presented below include:
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Ad-Hoc Community
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Self-Governed Community
The more formal organization templates presented below include:
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Governed Community
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Enterprise Partial
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Enterprise Full
Organization Template: Ad-Hoc Community
In this organization template, the style of reuse is very informal and ad-hoc. The reuse scope is targeted for the
specific community, with no governance boards or policies. There are resources committed to managing the repository,
but the asset production and reuse is ad-hoc at best. The use of assets is opportunistic.
Organization Template: Self-Governed Community
In this organization template, the community supports asset governance, dictating the policies and structure by which
the assets in the community comply. One or more governance boards are established and funded by the community. The
reuse scope is at the community level, which may be a team, or a project. The community funds resources to administer
the asset repository. There is no formal asset production team, but it is expected that those who produce assets will
comply with the policies from asset governance. The use of assets is planned and opportunistic.
Organization Template: Governed Community
In this organization template, asset governance is centrally funded with one or more asset governance boards whose
policies cross many communities for the enterprise. The reuse scope is at the community level still, and each community
funds and manages their own repository. The asset production is formalized with committed resources, which adhere to
the governance policies. The community subject matter experts are close to the asset production activities, and often
are the ones who produce the assets, or work closely with the asset production team. The use of assets is planned and
opportunistic. Those who produce the assets follow key assets into the context of the asset consumers to help insure
their success, as noted by the "support" line.
Organization Template: Enterprise Partial
In this organization template the asset governance is centrally funded and controlled. The asset repository and
management is also centrally funded and managed, implementing governance policies. But the asset production is
formalized in the respective communities, where the domain expertise resides. The reuse scope is at the community,
cross-community, and enterprise level. The domain experts from the communities produce the assets or work with asset
production teams in the communities. Those who produce the assets follow key assets into the context of the asset
consumers to help insure their success, as noted by the "support" line. The asset use is planned and opportunistic.
Organization Template: Enterprise Full
In this organization template the asset governance is centrally funded and controlled. The asset repository and
management is also centrally funded and managed. The asset production is also centrally managed, and domain experts
from the communities participate in the central production team. The reuse scope is at the community, cross-community
and enterprise level. In this organization template the experts from the centralized asset production team follow key
assets into the communities to help ensure success using the assets (as noted by the "support" line in the image). The
asset use is planned and opportunistic.
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