Posts tagged: 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 , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , , , | 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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