The business question Who is responsible for our assets? enables your company to understand the users and organizations that have a functional role for each asset in the IT portfolio. This information is critical to close the gaps in your data and identify the relevant users to correct data quality issues.

In Alfabet FastLane, responsibilities are documented via the concept of "roles". Each role is based on a preconfigured role type or a custom role type defined by your company.

• Preconfigured role types are available out-of-the-box.
  • Application Manager: A person who is the subject matter expert for the application from a functional and technical point of view.
  • Architect: A person who is responsible for the governance of the asset.
  • Asset Owner: A person or organization who legally owns the asset. These users and organizations are responsible for making asset allocation decisions based on strategic and operational objectives.
  • Business Owner: A person or organization who owns the asset and is responsible for managing the functional requirements.
  • Capability Owner: A person who is responsible for the business capability/IT capability.
  • IT Owner: A person or IT organization owning the asset and thus typically responsible for approval decisions.
  • Operations: An IT organization responsible for the operations of the asset.
  • Project Manager: A person who is responsible for planning, organizing, managing, and executing projects from beginning to end including the project's budget, resources, and scheduling.
  • Staffing Manager: A person who is responsible to allocate and balance the human resources required for a project.
  • Stakeholder: A person or organization that has an interest in the assets and therefore requires read-only access permissions.

This business question provides information about the responsibilities for all relevant assets in your repository to find gaps in responsibilities and initiate mitigations. You should review the information for each object class to understand how many assets have an “owner” specified and who is responsible for a specific application or component. By diligently reviewing and maintaining the responsibilities for the assets in your company, you can establish a single source of truth for all responsibilities to quickly find the right contacts when making decisions about which assets to keep and which to retire. The business question Who is responsible for our assets? allow to track and take action if the information about responsibilities is incomplete so that you can move closer to a desirable data governance completeness score.