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The Four Dimensions of Engineering Governance
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Engineering projects often fail due to opaque or unchallengeable decision-making. This paper introduces the four dimensions of engineering governance - Intent (WHY), Expected Behaviour (WHAT), Realisation (WITH), and Evidence (PROOF) - as the structural basis for challengeable justification. It presents the Dimensionally Aware Categorisation Technique (DACT), a minimal governance pattern that prevents “Governance Debt” by revealing when governable artefacts (e.g. requirements, design elements, tests) become conflated in ways that obscure engineering decisions
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2026-01-22
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2026-01-25Ellaborated governance debt, updated collision table with governance risk column, added low-risk example, refined change-focused rigor section, clarified dimensional definitions.
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2026-02-03Added vertical IP Provenance Disclaimer to all pages to explicitly define the independent nature of the research.