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• Predefined templates, workflows, and policies for governing the service life cyclelifecycle
• An approval and review process for service specifications
• The ability to promote services through the stages of the service life cyclelifecycle

In addition to services, governance includes life cycle lifecycle management of artifacts, including all types of content and information models. Examples include the Enterprise Conformance and Compliance Framework (ECCF) specifications.

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• Provide compliance metrics as they relate to governance: mechanisms to catalog and enable discovery of compliance records associated with policies, contracts, and constraints that are based on these metrics.
• Provide a mechanism to inform participants of significant management events, such as changes in governance rules or regulations.
• Create policy templates: governance is expressed through policies and assumes use of focused policy modules that can be employed across many common circumstances.
• Create and edit service, artifact and specification rules and regulations.
• Define metrics: governance relies on metrics to define and measure compliance
• Create workflow templates and apply them to artifacts and services.
• Customize review and approval workflows.
• Provide the ability to create a custom service and artifact life cycle lifecycle and establish review milestones.
• Establish access control policies.
• Establish design time constraint policies against specific milestones in the artifact and service lifecycle.
• Establish runtime constraint policies against specific milestones in the artifact and service lifecycle.
• Enforce policies against service specifications and artifacts.
• Check service specifications and artifacts for compliance against established access control, design time constraints and runtime constraints.
• Support both human and automated approval and review and of all artifacts and services.
• Link users' security and access rights to particular governance and workflow.
• Support partial specifications and a governance framework that addresses the low end of the value curve, the innovators.
• Provide a path for moving up the value curve and governance of more robust specifications.
• Initiate service specification governance.
• Monitor the workflow and approval process.
• Allow governance team to set the status of a specification and promote it.
• Manage versioning and localization of the service specifications.
• Allow curators to set the status of a model and receive change notifications.
• Govern collaborative development.

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