Application Ownership Roles & Responsibilities

Application Ownership Roles & Responsibilities

Clear ownership and associated responsibilities are key to the effective on-going management and good governance of Applications. 

Every application must have both an Application Business Owner, and an Application Technical Owner, typically a UCD unit or school that has the sufficient authority, skills, and resources to fulfil the role effectively.  

These roles are supported by Application Business Manager and Application Technical Manager roles respectively, an individual responsible for the day-to-day operational duties of managing an application. 

These four roles are mandatory governance roles that ensure that applications are designed, deployed, operated and supported in a secure, sustainable, and compliant manner.

Agreement and assignment of these roles is required prior to procurement, deployment, or in-house development of all applications.