Before you start, have a plan

One of the things you want to do before you start your journey is to put a plan or governance together.  This will help with keeping everyone honest and set the expectation on what is important to consider when building your solutions.  As you can see in the following figure, we look at governance from a design, execute, and review perspective to keep things simple.

Azure governance approach

This is meant to answer the questions as to “Why we do things”, “How we do things”, then how we verify and change our governance.  The “why” component becomes your vision and constraints such as regulatory obligations, privacy, ...

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