
362 Part II n The Step-by-Step Guide to the TIQM Quality System
PARTICIPANT IQ ACTIVITY ROLE
Business
Information
Steward
Ensures the Completeness, Correctness, and Clarity of
the Data Definition, Valid Value Sets, and Business Rule
Specification changes.
Data Movement
Control Specialist
Develops the programs or mechanisms to implement the
Audits and Controls for Data Movement activities.
Techniques and Tools for Step P5.9
Quality Assurance:
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Structured review to ensure that audit and control
mechanisms are properly specified, implemented, and tested
Audit and Control Principles:
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Guidelines for developing controls for
data transformation and movement
Step P5.9: Process Steps and Guidelines
1. Develop record count controls to ensure proper record handling. Note
that this is done well in ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) software. See
Figure 8-18 for an example of the “Order Record” Count.
This example illustrates Record Count Controls:
1.1. Identify an independent count of Records to Input into a process.
Total Count of Records expected = 11,200
1.2. Count the number of Records as they are input into the process.
1.3. Identify the control data for record handling:
Unchanged records passed = 11,050.
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Changed records passed = 115.
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Consolidated records passed (in this example) = 12.
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Total count of records passed to the next step = 11,177.
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Duplicate records not passed (in this example) ...