CIO · IT Director
The answer is probably correct. The question is not whether it is true, but what it rests on.
You ask your team. You get the answer "it is under control". That answer is honest and most likely correct.
But that answer is the knowledge of a person, not the output of a system. Ask the same question six months from now, when that person has moved on, and you will not get the same confidence.
The commitment you gave the board rests somewhere you cannot see.
Governance does not add a process. It takes the good processes you already have out of personal dependency.
The rule a change was approved under sits inside the record, together with the rule as it stood that day. Even after the rules change, an old record is still read against the rules of its own day.
The answer you give the board then rests on a verifiable record rather than on someone's memory.