[A companion to the Demystifying Data Governance series] Every data governance program claims to know its own state. However, many cannot even answer a simple question like, “How many tables do you…
Tag: Data Governance
Demystifying Data Governance – How Do We Know It’s Working?
[Part 4 of the Demystifying Data Governance Series] There is a joke about firefighters. When the city has no fire, people ask why they are paying for them. Data governance lives inside…
Demystifying Data Governance – Who Gets Access and How Do We Keep It Safe?
[Part 3 of the Demystifying Data Governance Series] In the previous article, we built the foundation: knowing what data we have, where it lives, how sensitive it is, and who owns it….
Demystifying Data Governance – What Do We Have and What Does It Mean?
[Part 2 of the Demystifying Data Governance Series] In the first article, we established that governance collapses into four pillars: know the data, secure it, use it properly, and improve it over…
Demystifying Data Governance – Building Trust Through Common Sense
[Part 1 of the Demystifying Data Governance Series] Before we knew the term “data governance”, we were probably already doing it. Not with frameworks or enterprise tools, but with common sense: tracking…