Practical Points from the DGPO: Dawn of Self-Service BI Governance
Happy New Year from the DGPO! On January 8, 2020, Cynthia Parsons and Scott Peachey presented Nationwide Insurance’s Award Winning…
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Metadata is Like Body Language
The Nonverbal Dilemma Nonverbal communication is composed of body gestures and vocal inflections. The words you speak are a small…
Business Glossary and Metadata: When a Data Catalog Product is Not a Data Catalog
If you do a general internet search for data catalogs, all sorts of possibilities emerge. If you look closely, and…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Semantics and the DAMA Wheel
Recently, I was giving a presentation and someone asked me which segment of “the DAMA wheel” did I think semantics…
Make An Impact: Create More Value with Data Curation
Wherever we go, we are overwhelmed by MORE: more sales, more discounts, more fun, more excitement, more features – the…
You Can’t “Cherry Pick” Agile Projects
When you are first adopting agile techniques in your organization a common strategy is to run one or more pilot…
Data Management 20/20: Rationalizing Complex Business Terms
Common Business Term Problem Symptoms Much of the information assets of an organization are captured in business glossaries which are…
DAMA International Community Corner: DAMA International Update
The DAMA-International Board of Directors (BoD) would like to communicate the current status of a few activities of interest to…
One Data Governance for All
There is … but one … Data Governance. I know that some people will disagree with me. Maybe you are…
Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: People Silos Cause Data Silos
With the exponential growth of data from so many different sources, data silos (or in other words, separate unintegrated data…