Your Next Step
This chapter asked a lot of you. You’ve been tasked to find an executive sponsor for your council, confirm key principles for your council to uphold, convince colleagues to serve as data stewards, define data domains per data steward, and write a data dictionary, accounting for reference data in each database where possible.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, I don’t blame you. Building your data governance council will take the most time and be the hardest aspect of this work.
If you’ve ever bought a plot of land and built a new house on top, you know how slow the first few months can feel. It will look like nothing’s getting done as time and money accrue. You might consider cutting your losses, thinking that your end goal is too ...
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