January 22, 2026 · 1 min read · Mizan Product Team
5 Governance Signals That Predict Azure DevOps Delivery Risk
The highest-impact signals for spotting control drift before it becomes a release incident.
Delivery failures rarely start in production. They begin when governance controls drift silently across branch policies, approvals, and service connections.
Mizan tracks five leading indicators: protection bypass frequency, unreviewed policy changes, pipeline credential scope, exception age, and unresolved critical alerts.
When these indicators are measured continuously, teams can intervene before audit failures and security incidents compound.
Treat governance telemetry as an operational SLO. Your release velocity improves when control health is visible and owned.