Practical Guidance Series

Getting Started

How do you put together a sustainable Data Governance and Stewardship program? Here we provide definitions, a discussion of Governance versus Stewardship, and typical program goals and principles. We provide guidance for starting a program and describe the different implementation phases of a program.

– Defining Data Governance

– Demonstrating Value

– Funding Models

– Setting Goals & Principles

– Starting a Program

– Data Governance Program Phases

Organizations and Accountabilities

How to build your governance effort. Here we describe how to assign data ownership, responsibility, roles and responsibilities. We also discuss working with data stewards, choosing and working with governance models, defining your organizational structures and establishing a Data Governance Office.

– Assigning Data Ownership

– Working With Data Stewards

– Choosing Governance Models

– Defining Organizational Structures

– Establishing a Data Governance Office

– Setting Governance Roles and Responsibilities

Processes and Alignments

These topics address what you do when you’re doing Data Governance. We’ve started with high-level overviews of a few basic topics: Roles & Responsibilities, Alignment, Communications, Decision-Making, and Issue Resolution.

– Governance and Alignment

– Governance Communications

– Dealing with Politics

– Engaging Stewards and Stakeholders

– Implementing Change Management

– Decision-Making

– Resolving Issues

Focus Areas

Data Governance programs exist to meet specific needs, such as supporting Compliance, Business Transformation, and/or Business/Data Integration. As a result, there can be many different ‘flavors’ of Data Governance programs that focus on different initiatives. Here we discuss topics that describe six common focus areas, the types of data they typically address, and what might be included in a charter for this type of program.

– Focus Areas for Data Governance

– Policy, Standards, Strategy

– Data Quality

– Privacy, Compliance, Security

– Architecture, Integration

– Data Warehouse, BI

– Management Alignment