Wednesday August 24 – Thursday August 25, 2011

San Jose Convention Center

Data Stewardship

Data Governance is a crucial piece of properly using your data and improving the quality of your data. And Data Stewardship is a critical piece of Data Governance – data stewards are your decision-makers about what data means, how it is derived, what rules to apply to determine data quality, and what data quality issues are worth spending resources on. More and more companies are coming to terms with the fact that they need to have a data stewardship function in order to be effective in collecting metadata (including definitions, derivations, and data quality rules), MDM, and data quality. A lot has been said and spoken about why stewardship is important, but HOW do you do it and be effective with limited resources (in the “real world”)? This presentation details how to set up a data stewardship function, provide training for your stewards, and run the entire stewardship effort – including managing the Data Stewardship Committee. You’ll need help from IT for folks who know the systems and ETL, and this presentation tells you how to coordinate your efforts, including recruiting help from IT for technical stewards, evaluating and installing Data Governance/Stewardship toolsets, and leveraging an IT sponsor. We will go into considerable detail on what the roles and responsibilities of the data stewards are, what decisions they have to make, and what processes have to be used in order to make those decisions.  In addition, it covers how to staff projects for stewardship and funnel the information from projects back into the overall stewardship process. Communications are another important part of stewardship, and we’ll discuss what meetings are needed, what a communications plan looks like, how to report on your stewardship progress, and how to avoid getting overwhelmed by meetings by leveraging modern collaboration tools.

You Will Learn:

• The relationship between data governance and data stewardship
• How to build and staff governance and stewardship organization
• How to recruit stewards and who in the organization is responsible for designating stewards.
• What type of person you need in the stewardship role.
• What the steward’s responsibilities are
• What the stewardship process looks like
• How to break up responsibilities by functional area
• Resources you can use to minimize endless meetings
• What the decision process is
• How to avoid overwhelming stewards when you have a lot of  projects
• What and how to document decisions
• A list of Data Stewardship Best Practices
• How to train your stewards to do what they must do.
• How to orchestrate a communications plan
• How to build a status report for stewardship and governance
• How to incorporate your stewards into the responsibilities of Information Security
• What the Stewardship maturity model looks like, and how to rank your stewardship effort.

Tuition

$1,195 (or $995 if paid by the July 22 early bird deadline)

Click HERE to register.

Registration Questions or Problems? Contact us at nerrisa@wilshireconferences.com or +1-310-337-2616.

Team Discount

Groups of 3 or more receive a 15% discount. Click HERE to download the group registration form.

Event Location

San Jose Convention Center

150 West San Carlos St.

San Jose, CA 95110

Hotel Reservations

Arrangements have been made at the San Jose Marriott for discounted room rates of $179 per night for workshop attendees. To make a reservation by phone, please call 1-800-266-9432 and ask for the Wilshire Conferences group rate.

The $179 group rate is available until August 1, 2011 or until the room block sells out, whichever comes first.

Workshop Policies

PAYMENT POLICY: All registration fees must be paid in US Dollars. Full payment must be made prior to attendance at the seminar. It is strict policy that only U.S. government employees may submit training authorization forms in lieu of prepayment. Our Federal ID Number is 95-4755805.

CONFIRMATION: Registrations will be confirmed by email.

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CANCELLATION POLICY: Should you need to cancel for any reason, you must notify us in writing. Substitutions may be made at any time. Cancellations received 30 days or more before the seminar are subject to a $100 cancellation charge. Cancellations received less than 30 days prior to the first day of the seminar will be subject to a $400 cancellation charge. Cancellations received less than 2 weeks prior to the first day of the seminar will not be entitled to any refund. Confirmed registrants who do not attend and do not cancel are liable for the entire registration fee. Please note: Non-payment does not constitute cancellation.

SCHEDULE: While every effort will be made to maintain the schedule exactly as represented, we reserve the right to make changes and substitutions as needed.

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