Data Professional Introspective: The Perennial Question
Recently, I’ve encountered many client staff, course students, and conference attendees who are grappling with the basic question: “What is…
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Data Professional Introspective: Why You Can’t Create an EDM Strategy
Some countries successfully create long-term strategic plans. For example, China’s first 100-year plan was aimed at the elimination of extreme…
Data Professional Introspective: Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail
This phrase has been attributed to several people including: Ben Franklin, Winston Churchill, and Abraham Lincoln. Despite whoever said it…
Data Professional Introspective: Organizational Factors Impacting EDM
“Money won’t save you, no, no, no, no, no.” – Reggae artist Jimmy Cliff, 1974. In fact, money, insofar as…
Data Modeling is (Still) Data Governance
The title of this feature should grab the attention of data modeling people as well as data governance people and,…
MDM Needs Data Governance
In recent years, there has been a growing awareness among organizations with regards to their data and the role it…
How to Avoid the Requirements Trap
Jason Williscroft has written elsewhere about sources of inertia that can send an EDM project sideways. In that piece he…
Agile Methodologies in EDM Projects
Everybody loves Agile. Right? I see it every day. The Scrum Master opens the daily ceremony with a flourish of…