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…
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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…
Big Data’s Role in Improving Product Lifecycle Management
We’re living in a time where data is a crucial part of everything. Every day, we generate around 2.5 quintillion…
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”…
Storing Data in the Cloud
In the cloud-era, should you store your corporate data in Cosmos DB on Azure, Cloud Spanner on the Google Cloud…
Partly Cloudy with a Scattered IT Environment
How many times, when you were a kid, did a thunderstorm cause an immediate mix of emotions: the fear of…
Data Professional Introspective: Enterprise Data & EDM Strategy Pt 1
It’s been a while since I’ve written about the goals and objectives of an Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Program and…
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…