DAMA International Community Corner: EDW 2017 – The DAMA-I Perspective
As in the past, EDW2017 was a non-stop DAMA-fest, with members of the DAMA-I Board having the first of our twice yearly face-to-face meetings over the weekend …
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Guidelines for Building World-Class Business Glossaries: Aligning Multiple Definitions
This article by Ron Ross is a continuation of his series focused on Guidelines for Building World-Class Business Glossaries. In this installment Ron shares …
Align Data Governance with Board Governance Imperatives
Governance – managing decision-making and control while balancing the interests of stakeholders – is as relevant to the Enterprise Data Council (EDC) …
Ask the Data Governance Coach: Managing Senior Stakeholders Who Want Everything
If I am being a purist, then data retention, end-user computing, and data protection are most definitely NOT data governance. It is easy therefore to make the …
Data, Data, Data
Rhetoricians will tell you that important concepts bear repetition. Real estate agents will extol the importance of “location, location, location.” As …
What Does Data Governance Mean?
Data governance is a relatively new, and very hot topic today. It comes as no surprise that there are a zillion different definitions of what data …
Practical Points from the DGPO: The Linchpin of Data Governance Success
The phrase “Ride it until the wheels fall off” has always intrigued me. While it sounds fun and exciting, the implication is that while you know you have a …
Guidelines for Building World-Class Business Glossaries – The Essence of Concepts
There are various schools of thought about how to define terms, some arising from professional terminologists and academia. But those approaches are …
Introduction to Agile Project Management, Part 3
In the first installment of this Introduction to Agile Project Management series, I wrote about Setting the Scene: why we need to be Agile, Feasibility, …
How to Conduct a Thorough Data Governance Best Practice Assessment
Web-sites like Mapquest.com can only map out directions if you tell it where you are heading; thus following a Stephen Covey effective habit of beginning with …