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6.7 Balancing Out the Need for Governance

with the Need for Contributions:

“Governance Lite™ ”

If anyone is allowed to create or update a dictionary entry, then some control is

needed to reconcile terms cross-functionally with other groups in the organiza-

tion who may have different usages for the same term. This creates the need

for some level of governance. One such project involved a dictionary, and the

question came up about an “authorized” vocabulary. The organization involved

decided that it wanted to have an individual or group to authorize vocabulary,

which then brought up questions about who was in charge of the authoriza-

tion? H ...