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Top 5 Challenges in Developing Data Governance Plans

Francis McWilliamsSolutions Architect

Francis.McWilliams@embarcadero.com

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Top 5 Challenges in Developing Data Governance Plans

1. Management Sponsorship

2. Scale Correctly

3. Roles and Responsibilities

4. Enforce Data Governance rules

5. Begin Business Glossary work early

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Management Sponsorship

1. Obtaining Management Buy-in

2. Benchmarking

3. Top-Down and Bottom-Up

4. Communicate!

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Scale the milestones

• Keep it realistic - Especially in the beginning

• Baby Steps – Bite size pieces

• Think Ongoing process

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Data Governance Roles and Responsibilities

1. Overseeing Body / Committee

2. Business Element

3. IT Support Team

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Roles

1. Data stewards: The people who know your data

2. IT SME and Data SME and Business SME

3. Enterprise Architects

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Business Glossary Metadata Context vs Content

• Start Early

• Data Stewardship - Continued

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Enrich using metadata

• Required to paint the full picture• Lack of information results in poor decision

making• Provide clarity over time

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Apply naming conventions

• Enforce consistency • Help provide meaning to physical

implementations• Provide clarity over time

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Data Governance is not a project

1. Ongoing process

2. Build for permanency

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What not to Do

• Buy in and not commitment

• Cart before the Horse

• Ocean Boiling

• Goldilocks Syndrome

• Too many people / Overload

• Failure to Implement

• Didn’t Plan for a journey

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Concluding Remarks

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