If compliance is so important, bake it into the platform

Can we take that governance and work with the platform team to codify, to automate that which they were doing on a per application basis – that’s, quiet frankly slowing down the delivery of the software – can we take that governance and can we have them work with the platform team to codfiy, to actually automate on a per application basis, have them expose that as a service on the platform

–Cornelia Davis on governance and cloud-native, “Who Does What? Mapping Cloud Foundry Activities and Entitlements to IT Roles,” August 2016

In other words: you should not only automate the audit three-ring binders of compliance, but enforce as much as possible in the platform.

The rest of the talk is good stuff on how think through re-arranging your organization to be all DevOps-y, with the help of Pivotal Cloud Platform to automate all the infrastructure and middleware stuff: