Govern

Product Ownership

Make ownership, request paths, and consumer contracts explicit around every shared data product.

Use this guide when a dataset is important enough to be shared as a product and supported over time.

Inputs

  • an owner team
  • a domain
  • a contract and support expectation
  • an access request path

Flow

  1. assign an owner team and steward
  2. document the intended audience and business purpose
  3. define outputs and semantic entrypoints
  4. publish the request path for access or support
  5. review subscriptions, dependencies, versions, and scorecards over time

What Good Looks Like

  • consumers know who owns the product
  • builders know what outputs are in contract
  • operators know who to contact when freshness or runtime issues appear