Governing Agile Teams: Part 1 of 2
An important, yet seldom discussed topic is: How to govern agile teams? This is rather strange considering that agile teams…
Data Articles
The Current Explosion of Data Catalogs
About 540 million years ago most of the animal body plans we see today suddenly appeared in a “relatively brief”…
Storing Data in the Cloud
In the cloud-era, should you store your corporate data in Cosmos DB on Azure, Cloud Spanner on the Google Cloud…
Automating Metadata Management Through Data Catalogs
Cataloging items has been a process used since the early 1900s to manage large inventories, whether it be books or…
The Lifecycle of Data
Most data is not static. No, data has a life in which it changes, is used for perhaps multiple purposes,…
The Business Case for a Common Language – Not “If,” but “What and When?”
Weinberg’s Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.[1] Introduction…
Building Trust with Centralized Data Access
In a traditional business model, core business assets included property, equipment, inventory, and cash. The tangible things we understand as…
Expanding Role of Data Governance, Metadata Management, and Data Quality
Ensuring data quality is an important aspect of data management and these days, DBAs are increasingly being called upon to…
Open Data & Democracy
Democracy is a system of government based on certain requirements, two of them being fundamental:free and fair elections, – alternative sets…
The Role of Data in Politics
One of the rules in political science is to not let data drive your theories. In other words, one should…