All too often I hear talk of a data culture and the conversation quickly encircles data technologies and tools. Technology and tools are not culture. Culture is: “a way of life for a group of people–the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by…
While working on various data management projects with our clients, they inevitably and somewhat carelessly use terms such as policies, procedures, standards, guiding principles and best practices. They assume that everyone is on the same page as to the meaning of these terms and how they are applied with data governance. But sometimes I wonder,…
So many times as project delivery professionals we hear the postmortems when projects fail: “We must not have planned enough…” “Our functional spec must not have been detailed enough…” “Our brainstorming sessions should have been longer…” “Our sponsors didn’t really know what they wanted when we captured the requirements…” “We delivered on time and on…