Designing Content Governance Flows
Quick start
Collect or infer:
- •Content types to govern (UI copy, docs, marketing, legal)
- •Stakeholders and their roles (creators, reviewers, approvers, publishers)
- •Current pain points (bottlenecks, inconsistency, compliance risks)
- •Constraints (legal requirements, release cycles, team capacity)
Then produce output using TEMPLATES.md. Validate with RUBRIC.md.
Workflow
- •Inventory all content types that require governance.
- •Map current state: who creates, reviews, approves, publishes each type.
- •Identify failure modes: what breaks, what delays, what gets skipped.
- •Define roles with explicit permissions and responsibilities.
- •Design review flows with clear entry/exit criteria.
- •Build escalation paths for exceptions.
- •Run the rubric check. Revise until it passes.
Degrees of freedom
- •Low freedom: Governance structure and role definitions must be explicit. Ambiguity causes bottlenecks.
- •Allowed variation: Specific flow steps may vary by content type, as long as accountability is clear.
References
- •Templates: TEMPLATES.md
- •Rubric: RUBRIC.md
- •Examples: EXAMPLES.md