Thinking about interviewing someone for a data governance role such as a Data Governance Manager or a Data Governance Coordinator? Maybe this is a new role in the organization. Maybe data...
Jim Walery
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Definitions should eliminate confusion across the enterprise. And they should be accessible by all that work with data. There are two types of definitions - functional and technical. And they...
Reporting and Analytics is very related to data governance. If you do not have trust in your data then you will not have trust in your reports and your analytic efforts. The report efforts are...
Reference data is the forgotten content in data governance. It needs to be documented and managed just like business glossary definitions and report specifications. Over time we have gathered...
Do not make everything reference data in your data governance area. This blog post will discuss that only the key ones should be documented and managed. And new ones should be added to over time....
Recently we held a webinar regarding responsibilities of a data governance leadership and oversight committee. Feel free to watch the recording here. We thought in this blog post we would cover...
In a recent webinar we covered tips for writing great business glossary definitions. Click here to access the recording. In this blog post we thought we would cover some principles and thoughts on...
Data governance helps your organization with your typical data situations. This blog post reminds you to review your various data situations (or maybe you call them use cases) and see how they can...
Reference data lists are used from a data governance perspective in a variety of places including definitional, quality, reporting, integration, and standards. Previously we covered what is...
In this blog post we will cover what is reference data by giving some examples and some general guidelines. The most common use of reference data are code values or lookup values. The dropdown...