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Role Based Path - Security & Compliance

This guide is for Security and Compliance leaders who want a scalable way to reinforce healthy engineering standards without adding manual enforcement or excessive process overhead. It focuses on usi…

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This guide is for Security and Compliance leaders who want a scalable way to reinforce healthy engineering standards without adding manual enforcement or excessive process overhead. It focuses on using LinearB’s delivery context and gitStream guardrails (if enabled) to reduce risk with low noise.

Time Required: 6–10 minutes to orient, 20 minutes to define a low-noise standards cadence
Difficulty: Easy

TL;DR

  • Use Teams → Delivery to observe organization-wide flow impact of controls.
  • Use Teams → Iterations (Completed) to identify unplanned security-driven scope churn.
  • Use gitStream (if enabled) to scale low-noise PR hygiene and policy guardrails.
  • Review trend shifts to ensure controls improve safety without unnecessary delivery drag.

What you likely care about

  • Are our policies consistent across repositories?
  • Where do late-stage findings create avoidable disruption?
  • Are controls adding measurable delivery drag?
  • Which guardrails should be automated vs. manually reviewed?

Where to spend time in LinearB

Metrics → Delivery
  • Monitor trend shifts after policy or tooling changes.
  • Look for stage-level slowdowns that may signal high-friction controls.
Teams → Iterations (Completed)
  • Identify security-driven unplanned work patterns.
  • Use this data to improve earlier-stage intake and policy clarity.
gitStream (if enabled)
  • Adopt minimal, well-scoped guardrails that improve PR hygiene with low noise.
  • Prefer a small number of high-leverage rules with clear exceptions.

Metrics to prioritize

  • Cycle Time trends before/after policy changes.
  • Unplanned work patterns tied to late discovery.
  • PR hygiene and change-risk signals where relevant.

Recommended Security operating cadence

  • Weekly: review top exceptions and outliers with engineering leads.
  • Monthly: refine one low-noise guardrail and measure impact.
  • Quarterly: validate policy effectiveness vs. delivery impact using trends.

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