Executing Data Quality Projects

Chapter 4 Structuring Your Project

You don’t have the luxury of choosing

between building infrastructure and

producing results. You need both.

– John Zachman, originator of the Framework

for Enterprise Architecture

In This Chapter

Projects and The Ten Steps

Data Quality Project Roles

Project Timing

Projects and The Ten Steps

The first questions asked for any project are, “What do you need to do, how long will it take, and who is going to do it?” From this can be estimated the most important question: “How much is this going to cost me?” This chapter provides guidance to help you answer those questions. Most people want something very prescriptive (“If you have xyz problem, then you should do exactly these steps, at this level of detail, ...