Opened from lineage, this governance feature lists everything downstream of an item, across workspaces too, that a change might break, and lets you notify the people responsible.
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Terms in this definition
- Governance
Keeping cloud deployments in line with an organisation's rules on technology, security and compliance, helped by Azure Policy, tags and resource locks.
- RACI
Stands for responsible, accountable, consulted, informed. A RACI chart lists functions and shows, for each, the single team accountable and the teams in the other three roles; the Cloud Adoption Framework includes worked examples.
Related terms
- Lineage view
Diagram of a workspace showing how its items feed one another, from sources through to reports, making it easy to trace data origins and dependants. Impact analysis begins here.