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Data Governance would be easy...

It's occurred to me that there are 2 areas that continually need work in my clients' data governance/steering (and data stewardship) programs. This work comes AFTER the participants are selected and usually after the programs are engaged.

1. The IT team really has no interest in being advised on what to do in the first place
2. No 2 governance members can agree on what that advice should be anyway

Make sure the IT team is accountable to the advisement from governance and make sure that governance includes a sponsor attuned to this (#2) reality and empowered to foster collaborative advice.

Technorati tags: data-warehouse, data-governance, data-stewardship

  Posted by William McKnight on January 16, 2008 12:41 PM |

Comments

We see this in our projects too. I'd add a #3 (as a corollary of the first two really), which is that the governance structure needs to be flexible and continuously reviewed, because it will change as you learn what works well and what does not!

Posted by: Cliff Longman | January 18, 2008 7:51 AM

Absolutely. Good one. Agree, especially with who is in the lead position in governance as the focus of the programs change over time.

Posted by: William McKnight | January 22, 2008 12:05 PM

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