Adjust policies, assignments, and scope

When the problem is the rule rather than the teams, these are the governance changes available to you. Each one has a procedure in the Govern guides. What this page adds is when to use which.

• Change a check’s parameters when the rule is right and its threshold is wrong. The row limit that fires on routine batch jobs, or the naming pattern that rejects a sanctioned convention. See Configure a policy check.

• Change a check’s severity when the rule is right and blocking is wrong, or the reverse. A rule that always gets overridden should warn instead. A warning nobody reads on a real risk should block. See Set policy check severity and exit codes.

• Change what a package contains when a rule does not belong in the bundle it ships in. Teams adopting that package get the rule whether it suits them or not. See Organize checks and packages.

• Change what an assignment covers when the rules are right but applied to the wrong assets. A production-grade package enforced on a sandbox, or a critical database with no assignment at all. See Define policy assignments and Review policy coverage.

A check’s configuration panel is where the first two happen. It shows the parameters you can change, the severity, and the scope the rule applies to.

Before you make the change

• Make one change per cycle, so the next reading can tell you what caused what.

• Tell the affected teams before it reaches any pipeline. See Communicate the change to affected teams.

• Write down what you expect to be different, for Verify the effect on the next measurement cycle to check against.