Executing Data Quality Projects

Chapter 5 Other Techniques and Tools

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a

series of small things brought together.

– Vincent van Gogh

In This Chapter

Introduction

Information Life Cycle Approaches

Capture Data

Analyze and Document Results

Metrics

Data Quality Tools

The Ten Steps and Six Sigma

Introduction

Information quality work uses many of the standard tools and techniques employed for years in product quality improvement. This chapter provides additional detail and examples related to data quality for a few of them. These techniques and tools are included in a separate chapter (not in just one of the Ten Steps) because they can be applied throughout The Ten Steps process.

The techniques can be used to understand and improve ...