# 10 Best Practices for Schema Stewardship (Part 1 of 2)

DevFeed: [10 Best Practices for Schema Stewardship (Part 1 of 2)](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/10-best-practices-for-schema-stewardship-part-1-of-2-23107.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.apollographql.com/blog/10-best-practices-for-schema-stewardship>)

Author: Dan Boerner

Published: 2021-08-19T09:04:49Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Apollo Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/apollo-blog.md>)

Topics: [GraphQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/graphql.md>), [consistency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/consistency.md>)

Tags: [best-practices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/best-practices.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [consistency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consistency.md>), [graphql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphql.md>), [schema](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/schema.md>), [teams](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/teams.md>)

## AI overview

Part 1 of this two-part article presents five best practices for collaboratively defining, evolving, and improving GraphQL schemas. It emphasizes a stewardship mindset and understanding the motivations and experiences of the teams involved.

## Source excerpt

Schemas are at the center of GraphQL's ability to capture a shared and a unified representation of our data, services, and digital capabilities. Yet, how do we manage a process for agreeing on this representation? How do we ensure it balances the needs of all the parties involved, and leads to the outcomes we seek? And how do we avoid creating a process bottleneck that slows everyone down?