by Angela Guess
Chris Grenz of Perficient reports, “Setting up a new data governance program means bringing deep change to the operating culture of an organization. As a result, getting traction for an enterprise scale effort may not always be the pragmatic route. Sometimes it’s better to be small and excellent here and let the enterprise adopt governance organically. The concept of limited or localized data governance has a couple of key tenants developed to penetrate a reluctant or even resistant organization.”
Those tenants include the following: “(1) Group members are empowered by their business organizations to make decisions related to the definition and use of their organization’s data. (2) We will make decisions that will be binding on a very specific set of systems and/or processes. Everyone else is free (and encouraged) to observe and adopt as they see fit. (3) We will favor excellent communication over mandatory involvement. We assume that members can make informed decisions about when to contribute and when to simply observe if the activities of the group are sufficiently transparent. (4) Our pace is set by the development roadmap, and the milestones are respected. Decisions are documented, published for comment, reviewed, and adopted according to the roadmap schedule.”
