Posts tagged: data governance roles responsibilities

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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