Governance Model for Laboratory SOPs
Who is responsible for approving changes?
Git provides tools.
Governance defines responsibility.
Recommended Roles
Section titled “Recommended Roles”An example governance structure could be assigned as follows:
- 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.
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.