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 Management News, Articles, & Education
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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.…
Data, Data, Data
Rhetoricians will tell you that important concepts bear repetition. Real estate agents will extol the importance of “location, location, location.” …
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…
How to Conduct a Thorough Data Governance Best Practice Assessment
Web-sites like Mapquest.com can only map out directions if you tell it where you are heading; thus following a Stephen…
Appreciating Metadata Through Music
Metadata is one of the more important aspects of data management, yet many data professionals do not understand or simply…
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…
Characteristics of Governing Data
Data Governance means different things to different people. There are several definitions floating around the industry. Sometimes organizations use the…
Privacy and Internet of Things (IoT)
What is Internet of Things (IoT)? The term “Internet of Things” may be considered a misnomer. The “Internet” with a…
Security as a Foundation for CS Ed
Recently I had the opportunity to go to a job interview session for a lecturing position in my university’s computer…