by Angela Guess
A new slide show offers five simple tips for making data governance easier. The first tip: Focus on the pain points. The article explains, “For organizations, pain points are like pressure points in massage: Hit the right pain point, and you can help the surrounding areas find relief. In a recent IT World Canada article, David Corrigan, director of product marketing for IBM Canada’s InfoSphere team, suggested you look for a specific user experiencing a pain point, then work with that user to secure buy-in for larger projects.”
Next up: Create a road map that slowly widens in scope. The article adds, “Corrigan also recommends you start governance with a road map that includes phases. The first step may seem small, even insignificant, but it will start the momentum for the second phase, which should be more important, he says.”
The third tip: Go agile with governance. The article states, “Governance is one of those things that seems like it should be done all at once. But even the Constitution as it stands today wasn’t written in one sitting or even a single decade. One smart approach some companies are trying: Apply agile software development principles to information governance. Jorge Garcia, an analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers, told IT World Canada companies that do this execute in rapid session and achieve milestones in a matter of weeks, rather than eight to nine months.”
Read the rest of the tips here.
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