Approver
An approver is a person or role authorized to review and formally accept a proposal, work product, decision, or change.
"Looks Good to Me"
A person authorized to approve a proposed code change for integration.
- How it is used
- Uses approvers to balance shared code ownership with timely integration of urgent changes.
- How deep it goes
- Examines approval-count tradeoffs, team disagreement, policy documentation, and tool limits, without specifying a final exception rule.
- Examples
- Uses a two-approver policy, absent teammates, delayed production fixes, and a tool unable to distinguish emergency scenarios.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate approval policies against maintainability goals, staffing constraints, emergency response needs, and available tool configuration.
Authorization in Action
A policy approver is the person authorized to approve an authorization policy for progression through its governance process.
- How it is used
- Confirms that an authorization policy matches business intent and scope before deployment within a governed policy life cycle.
- How deep it goes
- Distinguishes approval from authorship, implementation review, coordination, and auditing, but does not specify approval mechanics or policy syntax.
- Examples
- Uses a workflow in which Alice authors, Bob reviews, Carol approves, Renee coordinates, and Arnold audits a policy.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate whether a policy’s business intent and scope are ready for progression through governed authorization workflows.
Related concepts
- rolekind of · A role is a defined function, responsibility, perspective, or set of permissions associated with a participant in an organization or system.
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