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Data Governance Handbook

By : Wendy S. Batchelder
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Data Governance Handbook

By: Wendy S. Batchelder

Overview of this book

2.5 quintillion bytes! This is the amount of data being generated every single day across the globe. As this number continues to grow, understanding and managing data becomes more complex. Data professionals know that it’s their responsibility to navigate this complexity and ensure effective governance, empowering businesses with the right data, at the right time, and with the right controls. If you are a data professional, this book will equip you with valuable guidance to conquer data governance complexities with ease. Written by a three-time chief data officer in global Fortune 500 companies, the Data Governance Handbook is an exhaustive guide to understanding data governance, its key components, and how to successfully position solutions in a way that translates into tangible business outcomes. By the end, you’ll be able to successfully pitch and gain support for your data governance program, demonstrating tangible outcomes that resonate with key stakeholders.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1:Designing the Path to Trusted Data
7
Part 2:Data Governance Capabilities Deep Dive
14
Part 3:Building Trust through Value-Based Delivery
20
Part 4:Case Study

Setting up data quality for success

My best advice for setting up your data quality program is to start small, be specific, be transparent, and scale rapidly. Pick a handful of metrics or a couple of key reports, and show the value of understanding the data, tracing the lineage, and measuring the quality of the data. Remediate issues quickly and visibly and show improvement in the data for these key metrics and/or reports.

Be very clear with your stakeholders, both users and executives alike: the goal is not to create perfect data for the enterprise. The goal is to deploy resources (time, money, people) for the most effective return on those resources. You could spend unlimited time and money remediating every data element, but it would be like trying to plug every hole in every boat in every ocean. Sometimes, you just need to build a better boat. You may run into instances where a report is incredibly low quality. It might be easier to completely recreate the report with different...