Ask the Data Governance Coach: Data Governance over a Data Lake?
There is currently a lot of excitement about data lakes and the possibilities that they offer, particularly about the analytics…
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Data Professional Introspective: How to Tackle a Data Quality Strategy
Everyone talks about the importance of data quality, but no one does anything about it. Not anything much, that is. …
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Data Governance and Glossary Readiness
I am often asked “how do we capture our data glossary assets” and “are we ready to engage with data…
Ask the Data Governance Coach: How Long Will My Data Governance Initiative Take?
In this column, I want to address a question that I am asked several times every week. To be honest,…
Practical Points from the DGPO: I Need A Data Governance Therapist
Why is Data Governance so hard? I often kid at Data Governance conferences (like the Dataversity and DEBtech International winter…
The Book Look: Achieving Buzzword Compliance
Come back in time with me to 1999. What a year for both movies and data! You probably can guess…
All in the Data: Time for a Data Intervention
Interventions are a systematic process of assessment and planning, employed to remediate or prevent a problem. The process is often…
Data is Risky Business: Situational Modifiers and the Myth of “Data Governance Ethics”
In this column, I want to address two topics that have recently popped up that I believe are essential to…
Business Glossaries and Metadata: Metadata Strategy and the Business Glossary
In this column I have discussed the significant concepts, processes, resources, and deliverables that can be maintained in a Business…
Make an Impact: Three Words to Irrelevancy
I get it. Creating data value is challenging under the best circumstances—and frankly, most of us aren’t in perfect situations.…