Category: Humor

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 »

Data Governance and The Laws of Physics

As much as developers would like to believe that they have total creative license, they really are bound to some degree by the underpinnings of their development software. No matter the language, platform, or technology, somewhere along the line there are limiters on what a developer can do that govern their efforts. Solution developers will [...]

Tuesday May 12th, 2009 in Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management, Humor, Metadata, Organizational Behavior | No Comments »

Someone has to be the Mom

Last week I was talking with one of my brothers and he commented that there are a lot of parallels between large families and business organizations. We both have good frames of reference having worked in IT and being 2 of 11 kids, so we started comparing family stories to data governance lessons learned. It [...]

Monday April 20th, 2009 in Data Governance Fundamentals, Humor | No Comments »

Is your IT shop a rebellious teen?

Sitting around with some developers recently and I asked why they were hesitant to embrace data governance. They acknowledged that there was good to be gained from it, but they felt they would be too constrained if they had to follow a bunch of governance rules. A woman in our group stated that they sounded [...]

Tuesday July 1st, 2008 in Communication, Data Governance Fundamentals, Data Management, Humor, Idle Thoughts | No Comments »

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