Enterprise Architecture: Connect-Dots for Adults, Part 2
This article, the second in a series, discusses what items could be contained in the enterprise architecture and touches briefly…
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Enterprise Architecture: Connect-the-Dots for Adults, Part 1
Developing an enterprise architecture can be viewed as connect-the-dots for adults. However, in doing so, all you get is a…
Why Data Models Do Not Work: The Role of Reference Data
There is an urgent need to acknowledge the limitations of data models and find a way to bridge the logical-physical…
The Socialization of Knowledge
This article is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, Business Metadata, to be published on or about September, 2007, co-authored…
The Data Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 6
Published in TDAN.com July 2007 Editor’s note: Following are links to all of the articles in this series: Part 1,…
Data Quality and the Project Life Cycle
Data quality tasks should be integrated into the project plan, and careful planning at the beginning of a project will…
Terminology, Semantics and the Meanings of Names
Basic terminology principles help to understand how naming conventions can be formed and then applied to relate the meanings of…
Data-Driven and Agile Methods: Can We Get Along?
It is possible for data-driven principles to be reconciled with those espoused by Agile enthusiasts, and these data-driven methods are…
What Does Manage Your Data and Information Assets Mean?
For data and information to rise to the level of capital and people as assets in the eyes of the…
Data Integration Requires Trust
When there is a lack of trust, there may be unnecessary boundaries and political obstacles that are the underlying causes…