Governance role	Responsibilities	Also known as
Release Manager	Works primarily in the Business Console component: •Orchestrates the lifecycle of a decision service, and is ultimately responsible for the deployment of a decision service release to production. •Follows a staged progression from development to test and production:  – Creates development branches or releases  – Defines change and validation activities for rule developers, business users, and integrators  – Assigns ownership of work, reviews, and approvals •With author rights, the person in this role can create deployment configurations in the Business Console for the development, test, and production environments.
Business User	Works primarily in the Business Console component: •Implements and maintains some or all of the business rule artifacts that are in a decision service. •Runs functional tests and simulations in the development environment to validate the changes that are made for a release. •Can deploy a decision service to the test environment to validate changes in a test application. Can also deploy to the development environment. •Can participate in the review or approval process for other business-user or integrator activities.	•Business Policy Architect •Rule Analyst •Rule Architect •Business Policy Analyst •Rule Author •Rule Writer •Business Rule Author •Rule Validator •Business Analyst
Integrator	Uses the Business Console component in addition to other development, integration, and test tools: •Builds the applications that call a decision service in the development, test, and production environments. •Can be involved in the validation activities that are defined by the release manager. •Can deploy decision services to the development and test environments. •Can view and use the decision services that are deployed in the production environment.
Permission manager	Works primarily in Business Console: •Implements the security policy on decision services. •Creates groups, sets the permissions, adds users to the groups, and sets the groups on decision services. •Can create deployment configurations in the Business Console for the development, test, and production environments. •Can deploy decision services in all environments. •The permission manager can take on all the ODM roles, for example, when the team is small.

Governance role	Responsibilities	Also known as
Cloud Administrator	This role manages users and assigns roles in the IBM ODM on Cloud portal: •There must be at least one administrator in an IBM ODM on Cloud subscription. •Only another administrator can remove an administrator. •Most users do not have a cloud administration role.
Rule Developer	This role performs the following functions: •Designs the structure of the implementation to support the design requirements and evolution of the decision services. •Develops technical functionality to support authoring (XOM and utility functions). •Formalizes the business terminology (vocabulary) used in Operational Decision Manager. •Makes the initial version of the business rule artifacts, including textual rules, decision tables, and ruleflows. •Runs the decision service locally or in the cloud development environment until adequate results are achieved. •Publishes the decision service from Rule Designer to Decision Center. •Collaborates with the release manager and business users in authoring and governance activities. •Collaborates with the integrator to integrate the decision service into an application. •Creates deployment configurations in Rule Designer for the execution environments.

Note: Although the Decision Center instance is in a Development environment, the service level agreement for ODM on Cloud makes it the right location for the purposes of architecture. FixPacks, and so on, are handled by the ODM on Cloud Software as a Service and you do not need a Test instance for Decision Center in this case.