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Low-Code Governance eBook by Mendix

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Mendix’s Low-Code Governance helps enterprises scale low-code development without losing control over security, quality, compliance, and business value. The whitepaper explains why governance is essential when low-code moves beyond a few applications into a broader enterprise portfolio. It shows how organizations can structure a Center of Excellence, manage fusion teams, set development guardrails, reuse components, control risk, and optimize low-code investments across the full application lifecycle.

As more teams use low-code to build software faster, weak governance can quickly lead to shadow IT, security gaps, inconsistent quality, rising costs, and unclear ROI. This whitepaper shows how low-code governance helps businesses maintain visibility and control while still enabling innovation, developer productivity, and rapid delivery. It walks through governance models, CoE structure, roles, portfolio planning, Agile delivery, testing, deployment, user feedback, and optimization.

What’s Inside

Low-Code Governance Basics: What governance means for low-code development and why it matters at scale.
From Good Enough to Exceptional: How governance improves investment control, risk control, cost management, and value tracking.
Center of Excellence Structure: How to choose between no CoE, centralized CoE, and decentralized CoE models.
CoE and Fusion Team Roles: Who should own standards, guardrails, app delivery, security, and business alignment.
Governance Journey: How governance supports onboarding, discovery, planning, Agile delivery, deployment, feedback, and optimization.
Mendix Governance Tools: How Control Center, Portfolio Management, Marketplace, QSM, Pipelines, and dashboards support governance.
Security and Compliance: How teams can manage SSO, user access, app permissions, vulnerabilities, audit trails, and risk visibility.
Good Governance Done Right: How enterprises can deliver better software faster while maintaining control, consistency, and confidence.