Mind Your Language Too
This article explains why making common sense of the real world first involves abstracting or grouping actual things into kinds…
Data Articles
The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 8
Published in TDAN.com February 2008 Editor’s note: Following are links to all of the articles in this series: Part 1,…
SOA – From Architecture to Implementation
This article provides a description of the basic building blocks of a service-oriented architecture and provides a basis upon which…
Understanding the ITIL CMDB Meta-Model
This article is the second in a series on the ITIL CMDB. This article provides a high level overview of…
Information Governance: Controlling Information as a Strategic Enterprise Resource
Information governance is defined by Larry English as the act or process of leading, directing, controlling and assuring that information…
Enterprise Architecture – Connect-the-Dots for Adults, Part 4
This article, part 4 in a series, discusses how to use, publish, maintain and govern the enterprise architecture.
Principles of ROI Development for Data Quality Projects
This article outlines 15 principles of ROI development for data quality (DQ) projects that can be leveraged across any industry.
Taking the Temperature of Your Data
Enhanced model performance comes from extracting as much information content as possible… relative to the specific performance metrics you are…
Business Analysis: A Guide to Better Business Requirements
This article presents ten business analysis guidelines, representing best practices from successful projects.
Too Simple, Too Soon
The author explains an application development approach advocated by many proponents of agile application development that can cause future problems…