Posts tagged: Data Custodian

Data Ownership vs. Data Stewardship

Over the last several years, there has been quite a bit of discussion regarding the distinction between data ownership and data stewardship. Stewardship commonly involves the daily and routine care-taking of all aspects of data systems. The roles are highly distributed. Ownership on the other hand is more concentrated. If you want to find the [...]

Friday August 27th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Data Steward and Data Custodian Definitions

Of all the posts on my blog, the one that draws the most interest is my humorous story about the definition of data steward and data custodian. Commonly, people find it while looking for a good definition and list of responsibilities for a data steward or data custodian. The following is being posted to help [...]

Wednesday March 3rd, 2010 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

How to Govern Data – A Simple Method to Implement Governance

Some time ago, while working with a large data warehouse, I formulated a simple method to govern data. The method was introduced as part of our Basel II work and was required by our Basel II Risk Management Policy. Subsequently as we were validating our plans for a data governance program, it was reviewed and [...]

Friday June 12th, 2009 in , , , , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Stick Figures

Technology workers often overlook the human element of any solution. We are quick to assemble an architecture diagram with servers, SAN space, and .NET applications; but what is almost always conspicuously missing are the people to run them and use them. These days I find it hard to resist the temptation during meetings to jump [...]

Monday January 12th, 2009 in , , , , , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Closing Communication Gaps

Why has it become so challenging for corporate America to establish effective internal communication? Meeting goals and objectives seems increasingly problematic. A common workplace perception is others block progressive efforts either intentionally or through incompetence. Could the technology we designed be pushing us further apart rather than uniting our organizations? Is the specialization of the [...]

Sunday March 30th, 2008 in , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

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