Category: Communication

Data Governance Responsibility and Accountablity: The RACI Waterfall

In the course of a great conversation on Data Governance with Max Gano of Stakeholder Care, we began discussing the application of controls. Max had some great thinking on how they fit into the realm of Data Governance. The conversation reminded me of a RACI Waterfall that I had created a few years back. The [...]

Friday January 21st, 2011 in Cloud Computing, Communication, Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management, Organizational Behavior, RACI, Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Case for an Enterprise Architect in your Data Governance Program

When I think about information architecture, I cannot help but compare it to the various forms of architecture in the physical world. Structures range from simple tents and tarps to soaring sky scrapers. In fact the original version of this entry started as I thought back on the scrap-wood tree houses we built as kids [...]

Monday February 22nd, 2010 in Communication, Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management, Data Modeling, Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Gap Between Perception and Reality

In order for any IT pro to really enjoy watching NCIS, they have to suspend reality particularly when McGee goes into action. Not action in the field, rather when he instantly gets into databases and merges the results to discover the trail of the villain. It really is BI nirvana.

Tuesday January 19th, 2010 in Communication, Data Management, Organizational Behavior | No Comments »

Practical Data Governance – Getting to Action

Four Steps to Action Two things many of my readers are searching for are a good definition for data steward, and a practical path to actionable data governance. This entry addresses the latter. While there is no silver bullet, here are four steps you can take after you get your senior management support.

Thursday July 9th, 2009 in Communication, Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Quality, Simple Data Governance | No Comments »

Where to Govern Data – Control Points in Information Flows

My last entry suggested that data governance is not a new problem. While exploring data governance, we are revisiting the issues encountered as society built out roads, and developed modern manufacturing processes. The only difference is what we are governing this time is data content instead of a physical thing. With that in mind, it [...]

Tuesday June 9th, 2009 in Communication, Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management, Data Quality, Simple Data Governance | No Comments »

5 Simple Criteria to Determine What to Govern

With increasing frequency, people are asking, “what is a simple solution to data governance?” They, and likely you, are looking a silver bullet to bring order out of chaos. The ironic part of the problem is that it is not a new problem; rather it is an old recurring problem with a new name. What [...]

Wednesday May 27th, 2009 in Communication, Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management, Data Quality, Simple Data Governance | No Comments »

Data Steward v. Data Custodian – What’s in a name?

Some time ago, on a project far, far, away, we spent a good deal of time trying to define roles around data governance. We recognized that both the business and the technology teams were key contributors in our fledgling data governance program. What was proposed was that Data Stewards were on the business side of [...]

Tuesday May 19th, 2009 in Communication, Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management, Data Quality, Humor, Idle Thoughts | 1 Comment »

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