Governance Model for Laboratory SOPs

Who is responsible for approving changes?

Git provides tools.
Governance defines responsibility.

Recommended Roles

Section titled Recommended Roles

Example Governance Structure

• Contributor
  Proposes improvements.

• Reviewer
  Checks scientific correctness and clarity.

• Maintainer
  Approves and merges changes.

• Principal Investigator
  Defines approval policy and release rules.

Minimal Governance Rules

Section titled Minimal Governance Rules

• No direct commits to main.
• All changes require at least one review.
• Major protocol revisions require PI approval.
• Approved versions are tagged.

Cultural Impact

Section titled Cultural Impact

Introducing review workflows:

• Increases procedural reliability
• Reduces informal knowledge drift
• Encourages documentation
• Supports regulatory compliance
• Strengthens reproducibility

A Git repository becomes more than a storage location.

It becomes a controlled procedural knowledge system.