Trust your people! Otherwise don't hire them in the first place.
You want to deploy something to prod? Okay, either call an API or fill out a webform (or message a Slack bot idk) - but the contents will be a checklist of stuff you need to have done.
1. Did you [load test, integration test, whatever]
2. Did your local architect look over and approve the high-level design? (NB: notice how we aren't requiring an architect to sign off, we trust the developer. Because if they lie they're fired lol.)
3. Other stuff. Maybe some taxonomic stuff like tags associated with deployed infrastructure? Swagger endpoints? Go nuts as long as it's stuff actually needed by central planning - the documentation and paper trail aspect is covered here
This is picked up to be ingested into databases, wikis, emails, wherever.
Compare with my last large corp where we had change approval boards where 25+ people sat in a long meeting and essentially just asked if you'd done the above and you'd then be greenlit to go to prod (at the time deployments were pretty manual and required scheduling as well which is obviously suboptimal). I'm just about to move from a small consulting company to a startup/scaleup so it's going to be interesting to see how things move there..
You want to deploy something to prod? Okay, either call an API or fill out a webform (or message a Slack bot idk) - but the contents will be a checklist of stuff you need to have done.
1. Did you [load test, integration test, whatever]
2. Did your local architect look over and approve the high-level design? (NB: notice how we aren't requiring an architect to sign off, we trust the developer. Because if they lie they're fired lol.)
3. Other stuff. Maybe some taxonomic stuff like tags associated with deployed infrastructure? Swagger endpoints? Go nuts as long as it's stuff actually needed by central planning - the documentation and paper trail aspect is covered here
This is picked up to be ingested into databases, wikis, emails, wherever.
Compare with my last large corp where we had change approval boards where 25+ people sat in a long meeting and essentially just asked if you'd done the above and you'd then be greenlit to go to prod (at the time deployments were pretty manual and required scheduling as well which is obviously suboptimal). I'm just about to move from a small consulting company to a startup/scaleup so it's going to be interesting to see how things move there..