Predictions from 2020; for 2021
2020 was the kind of year that would make anyone in the predictions business more than a little gun shy. …
Data Governance News, Articles, & Education
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Data Governance Checklist for Auditing Reports
An integral part of organizational data comprises of customer and employee data. This data is used for important decision making…
Data Governance Benefits and the Trifecta of People, Process, and Technology
A client recently asked me to summarize the benefits of data governance and the three main elements of data governance…
Zen and The Art of Data Maintenance: Data, Politics, and Polarization
An angry mob outside government buildings killed people because of political disagreement. This mob represented one political party and their…
Governing Agile Teams: Part 1 of 2
An important, yet seldom discussed topic is: How to govern agile teams? This is rather strange considering that agile teams…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Extend the Impact of Enterprise Data through Partnerships
This quarter’s column is written by Ted Sienknecht, PMP, CISSP, who is a Principal Architect for Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) at…
The Current Explosion of Data Catalogs
About 540 million years ago most of the animal body plans we see today suddenly appeared in a “relatively brief”…
Practical Points from the DGPO: Three Key Aspects of Data Governance
In October 2020, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced a $400 million civil monetary penalty against…
All in the Data: Never a “Right” Time for Data
Several years ago, I wrote an article called the Data Governance Bill of “Rights.” I also speak often about my…
Automating Metadata Management Through Data Catalogs
Cataloging items has been a process used since the early 1900s to manage large inventories, whether it be books or…