Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Agile Data Warehousing
Welcome to the fifth article in a series about applying Agile techniques to data projects in our Tips and Tricks…
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Ask the Data Governance Coach: Do We Have to Call It Data Governance?
The question that I’m going to address in this column is one I get asked fairly regularly. Sadly however, there…
Data Professional Introspective: Do This to Be the Toast of the Town
You are a data management professional, so we know you are a hero already. But if you’d like to be…
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Business Glossary Value
I wrote an article a year ago about the Business Glossary Prime Directive for TDAN.com, which can be found here.…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Data-Centric vs. Application-Centric
Data Centric vs. Software Wasteland Dave MccComb’s new book “Software Wasteland: How the Application-Centric Mindset is Hobbling our Enterprises” has…
The Data Forecast: Data Wrangling Basics
“Data Wrangling” — as a Data Management term, is about as good as it gets. Action-oriented describes what it actually…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Data Model Patterns for Agile Projects
This is the fourth column in my series about applying Agile techniques to data projects in our Tips and Tricks from the…
Data Professional Introspective: Coming in From the Cold
The Enterprise Data Management Organization In working with both commercial companies and Federal and State agencies, I’ve found that many…
The Book Look: After Action Review – Continuous Improvement Made Easy
Sometimes we read a book that contains fundamental yet powerful ideas. Ideas that we might have been aware of, and…
It’s All in the Data: Go Jump in a Lake
You’ve all heard the expression before: “Go jump in a lake.” It means the same thing as “Get outta town”…