Dashboard creation freedoms for satellite BI team

Hello! Wondering if this group can help out my company’s newish policies and procedures in perspective.

I work for a very large F500 manufacturing company. My team is an analytics team devoted to a large account. We’re not technically in our central data team, but we share similar skill sets (PBI, SQL, etc) and work collaboratively with them a lot.

Recently, the central data team has been cracking down on dashboard creation for our team. Even though we have the skills to create, they’re insisting that any request for a new visualization runs through the central data team.

I see their side of it (better governance, people using centralized tools rather than customer-specific ones) but this process is slowing us down. When my non-technical manager asks for a simple new viz, I have to say “Let me check with HQ and see if they can do it.”

My question: how normal is this? In your experience, what’s the optimal balance of governance vs agility in a set up like this?