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Top 5 Challenges in Developing Data Governance Plans
Francis McWilliamsSolutions Architect
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Top 5 Challenges in Developing Data Governance Plans
1. Management Sponsorship
2. Scale Correctly
3. Roles and Responsibilities
4. Enforce Data Governance rules
5. Begin Business Glossary work early
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Management Sponsorship
1. Obtaining Management Buy-in
2. Benchmarking
3. Top-Down and Bottom-Up
4. Communicate!
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Scale the milestones
• Keep it realistic - Especially in the beginning
• Baby Steps – Bite size pieces
• Think Ongoing process
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Data Governance Roles and Responsibilities
1. Overseeing Body / Committee
2. Business Element
3. IT Support Team
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Roles
1. Data stewards: The people who know your data
2. IT SME and Data SME and Business SME
3. Enterprise Architects
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Business Glossary Metadata Context vs Content
• Start Early
• Data Stewardship - Continued
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Enrich using metadata
• Required to paint the full picture• Lack of information results in poor decision
making• Provide clarity over time
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Apply naming conventions
• Enforce consistency • Help provide meaning to physical
implementations• Provide clarity over time
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Data Governance is not a project
1. Ongoing process
2. Build for permanency
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What not to Do
• Buy in and not commitment
• Cart before the Horse
• Ocean Boiling
• Goldilocks Syndrome
• Too many people / Overload
• Failure to Implement
• Didn’t Plan for a journey
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Concluding Remarks
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