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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

Conclusion

As you work to deploy a strong technical metadata capability within your organization, it helps to work in concert with your business metadata capability. As you are working to progress this capability across programs or data domains, having your data catalog updated as you go, defining key data elements, and aligning with technical metadata, including lineage, will help you build confidence in the quality of both business and technical metadata. Being able to show your users that you have both business and technical depth of understanding that is reliable will translate into strong reliance on your capabilities. Remember to start by defining the scope to help set expectations regarding what the business will get from this capability, and when. Ensure you have clear roles and responsibilities, along with clear, transparent, and published metrics to measure your success. Lastly, don’t forget to tell stories of success as you go.