Data and Trending Technologies: Data’s Role
I am excited to begin my role as a regular contributor to TDAN.com. The focus of my new column will…
Data Columns
DAMA International Community Corner: DAMA is Winning
In the last few weeks, DAMA International has had some interesting wins. The first win is the long awaited DAMA-DMBOK…
Ask the Data Governance Coach: All About Data Governance Committees
In this column, The Data Governance Coach answers the question “What is a Data Governance Committee and What Does It Do?”…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Agile Principles in Data Projects, Part 2
The Agile Data Disconnect Why do data practitioners, and (especially) data modelers typically run away from Agile? In traditional projects…
It’s All in the Data: Everybody is a Data Steward, Get Over It!
Everybody in the organization is a data steward and we need to JUST BELIEVE IT and GET OVER THAT FACT.…
Practical Points from the DGPO: Take Me Out to the Data Governance Ballgame
I am ending my first year as a Little League Baseball parent. As I have sat on numerous bleachers through…
Data Professional Introspective: Know Thy Enterprise Data
Data is an organization’s ‘prana’ (breath of life). For virtually all organizations, we can assert: Data has grown like an…
The Book Look: Data Strategy and the Enterprise Data Executive
In this quarter’s column for TDAN.com, I would like to share an excerpt from a book that just recently released:…
Data is Risky Business: Promoting DG Principles
I was giving testimony to a Joint Committee of both Houses of the Irish Parliament on data sharing legislation earlier…
Business Glossaries and Metadata: DG Adoption, the Bur Under My Saddle
We are all aware of the need to define our Data Governance (DG) terminology, so let’s start there. What we…