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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

Applying a product mindset to data capabilities

One of the best ways to continue to iterate on a solution is by adopting a product mindset to your data capabilities. This concept has been emerging in the data space for the last few years and I’ve driven this model in two teams I’ve led at the time of writing. The best way to think about adopting this mindset is to look at how products are deployed in the technology industry. It’s a great time to think about this as you are building solutions under the data product mindset because it fundamentally aligns with product management.

Product management for data

As you start to build a solution, the idea is that you go live with an immediate minimum viable product (MVP) solution and continue to release new features periodically over time. Ideally, you should follow the following steps, at a minimum:

  1. Assign a product manager: Each solution should have an assigned product manager who “owns” the...