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DMBOK - Chp 3
Data Governance
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Data Governance definition | The exercise of authority and control (planning, monitoring, and enforcement) over the management of data assets. |
| Most Data Governance programs include | Strategy Policy Standards and quality Oversight Compliance Issue management Data management projects Data asset valuation |
| Drivers for data governance include | Reducing Risk (General risk management, data security, and privacy) Improving Processes (regulatory compliance, Data quality improvement, Metadata management, efficiency in development projects, vendor management) |
| Data Governance goal | Enable an organization to manage data as an asset. |
| Data Governance represents an | inherent separation of duty between oversight and execution. |
| Difference between Data Governance and Data Management | Data Governance: Ensuring data is managed Data Management: Managing data to achieve goals |
| Data-centric organizations | Value data as an asset and manages data through all phases of its lifecycle. |
| Data Governance Steering Committee | The primary and highest authority organization for data governance in an organization, responsible for oversight, support, and funding of data governance activities. |
| Data Governance Council | Manage data governance initiatives (e.g., development of policies or metrics), issues, and escalations. |
| Data Governance Office | Ongoing focus on enterprise-level data definitions and data management standards across all DAMA-DMBOK Knowledge Areas. |
| Data Stewardship Team | Communities of interest focused on one or more specific subject-areas or projects, collaborating or consulting with project teams on data definitions and data management standards related to the focus. |
| Data Governance model types | Centralized - one DG organization oversees all activities in all subject areas Replicated - the same DG operating model and standards are adopted by each business unit Federated - one DG organization coordinates with multiple Business Units |
| Data Stewardship | Accountable and responsible for data and processes that ensure effective control and use of data assets |
| Typical stewardship activities | Creating and managing core Metadata Documenting rules and standards Managing data quality issues Executing operational data governance activities |
| Business Data Steward | Business professionals, most often recognized subject matter experts, accountable for a subset of data. They work with stakeholders to define and control data |
| Data Owner | A Business Data Steward who has approval authority for decisions about data within their domain. |
| Technical Data Stewards | IT professionals operating within one of the Knowledge Areas (such as data integration, database administrators, BI specialists, DQ analysts or Metadata administrators) |
| Data Policies | Directives that codify principles and management intent into fundamental rules governing the creation, acquisition, integrity, security, quality, and use of data and information. |
| Data Asset Valuation | the process of understanding and calculating the economic value to an organization. The key to understanding the value is understanding how it is used and the value brought by its usage. |
| Ways to measure data asset value | Replacement cost Market value Identified opportunities Selling data Risk cost |
| Data Governance enables | shared responsibility for data-related decisions and activities that cross organizational and system boundaries in support of an integrated view of data. |
| Typical DG readiness assessments include | Data management maturity (understand what the organization does with data) Capacity to change Collaborative readiness Business alignment |
| DG discovery activity will | identify and assess the effectiveness of existing policies and guidelines, as well as opportunities to improve the usefulness of data and content |
| Data Governance Strategy components | Charter Operating framework and accountabilities Implementation roadmap Plan for operational success |
| When defining DG operating framework, consider | Value of data to the organization Business model Cultural factors Impact of regulation |
| DG goals, principles, and policies | derived from the DG Strategy Guide the organization into the desired future state |
| DG Issue Management examples | Authority (questions regarding decision rights and procedures) Change management escalations Compliance Conflicts Conformance Contracts Data security and identity Data quality |
| Typical early stage DG activities | Defining DG procedures Establishing a business glossary Coordinating with Enterprise Architecture and Data Architecture to support better understanding of the data and systems Assigning financial value to data assets |
| Concepts that are typically standardized | Data Architecture Data Modeling and Design Data Storage and Operations Data Security Data Integration Documents and Content Reference and Master Data Data Warehousing and BI Metadata Data Quality Big Data and Data Science |
| Business glossary objectives | Enable common understanding of core business concepts and terminology Reduce the risk that data will be misused due to inconsistent understanding Improve the alignment between technology assets and the business organization Maximize search capabilities |
| DG Tools & Techniques | Online presence / Website Business Glossary Workflow Tools Document Management Tools Data Governance Scorecards |
| DG Metrics | Value (e.g., contribution to business objectives, reduction of risk, improved efficiency in operations) Effectiveness (Achievement of goals, extent stewards are using relevant tools) Sustainability (performance of policies and standards) |