# API Governance Owner

Canonical page: https://apiopscycles.com/roles/governance-specialist

Language: en

Entity ID: governance-specialist

Represents review, audit, and organization-wide governance practices for API quality and conformity.

## Decisions

- Review the completed design, test evidence, operating model, permissions, credentials, monitoring, support, fallback, and rollback arrangements.
- Verify that known risks, exceptions, unsafe actions, human oversight, compliance requirements, and unresolved assumptions have been addressed or explicitly accepted.
- Record blocking findings, accepted residual risks, release conditions, and required remediation actions.
- Decide whether the release is ready, ready with conditions, requires remediation, or is not approved.
- Record the decision owner, decision date, and evidence used.
- Confirm that nothing proceeds to release without clear business and operational ownership.

## Outputs

- Formal readiness decision
- Evidence, blocking findings, accepted residual risks, and remediation actions reviewed
- Release decision recorded as ready, ready with conditions, remediation required, or not approved
- Business and operational ownership confirmed before release
- audit-report
- compliance-report
- security-report
- test-report

## Recommended resources

- [API Audit Checklist](https://apiopscycles.com/resources/api-audit-checklist.md)

## Participation by cycle and station

- [Capability Productization Cycle](https://apiopscycles.com/cycles/capability-productization-cycle.md) / [Capability Readiness Assurance](https://apiopscycles.com/cycles/capability-productization-cycle/stations/api-audit.md): lead
- [API Productization Cycle](https://apiopscycles.com/cycles/api-productization-cycle.md) / [API Audit](https://apiopscycles.com/cycles/api-productization-cycle/stations/api-audit.md): lead
- [Integration Productization Cycle](https://apiopscycles.com/cycles/integration-productization-cycle.md) / [Integration Readiness Assurance](https://apiopscycles.com/cycles/integration-productization-cycle/stations/api-audit.md): lead
- [Automation Cycle](https://apiopscycles.com/cycles/automation-cycle.md) / [Automation Readiness Review](https://apiopscycles.com/cycles/automation-cycle/stations/api-audit.md): lead