Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Agile Principles in Data Projects, Part 1
Welcome to our new column, Tales & Tips from the Trenches. Written with contributions from authors with many years’ experience…
Data Columns
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’s All in the Data: It was 20 Years Ago Today
This online publication, The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com), will celebrate its twentieth anniversary in the coming months of 2017. Twenty…
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…
Data Professional Introspective: Tulip Fields and How to Tend Them
Since it’s spring, let’s imagine that we’re visiting the Netherlands and are gazing in delight at the stunning beauty of…
The Book Look: Quantifiably Better
Quantifiably Better, by Steve VanWieren, is a short book that delivers a big punch. There are no complex formulas or…
Data is Risky Business: Metadata Impact on Business Meaning and Risk
Metadata has been with us since the first human smeared charcoal from their campfire and placed the mark of their…
Business Glossaries and Metadata: The Prime Directive
Yes, I’m using a line from the Star Trek franchise. We must have a similar concept for Data Governance and…
The Data Forecast: (Un-)Reasons to do Data Analytics in the Cloud
Let’s get this out of the way: you need to move your data analytics to the cloud. Some people may…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Integration Debt
Integration Debt is a Form of Technical Debt As with so many things, we owe the coining of the metaphor…