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Data Governance Handbook
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Data Governance Handbook

by Wendy S. Batchelder
May 2024
Beginner to intermediate
396 pages
11h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Baseline Your Organization

A key component of measuring success is measuring your progress. To do that effectively, you need to know where you start from. In this chapter, you will learn the importance of defining a baseline, both for the organization at large and for individual projects. Next, you will learn how to capture a baseline and who to communicate it to. Finally, we will discuss how to ensure agreement on the baseline before beginning work.

There are many ways to baseline the organization to be able to measure your impact, but one of the most common is through the use of a data maturity model. Throughout the course of my last ten years in leading data transformations, one thing is for certain: having a strong baseline is beneficial ...

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