# Compare responsibilities before products

Taiga Learning · Worksheet
https://taiga.training/en/lessons/responsibility-map/

Use fictional or approved information. Do not put secrets in this worksheet.

## Learning objectives
- Compare options against the same required outcome.
- Distinguish performing work from accepting responsibility for its consequences.
- Identify gaps and overlaps in a proposed operating model.

## Exercise
Create three columns: coding assistant, internally assembled delivery system, and purchased software factory. Add rows for requirements, policies, implementation, verification, release, operation, and updates. Record who performs, verifies, and accepts each activity. Mark every unknown.

## Your response
- Scenario and scope:
- Assumptions and open questions:
- Proposed answer or decision, with reasons:

## Verify your response
| Claim or criterion | Evidence or test | Result or gap | Owner |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
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## Next action
- Action, owner, and date:
- When will you review this response?

## Principle to retain
Buying a tool changes who performs some work. Compare the complete responsibility map before comparing prices or demonstrations.

## Sources
- [CNCF: Platforms White Paper](https://tag-app-delivery.cncf.io/whitepapers/platforms/)
- [AWS: Shared Responsibility Model](https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model/)

This worksheet supports learning. Completing it does not itself authorize a production change.