Designing Data Governance

Course details

More data is produced and ingested than ever before, yet the number of leaders who say they’re data-driven is decreasing. Today’s businesses produce and ingest too much data for one team or leader to manage it all. That’s where data governance comes in. Organizations today must design data governance—the people, processes, and tools to manage your data at scale—into their business plans.

In this course, learn how to design a data governance program from scratch. Instructor Lauren Maffeo explains what data governance is, why every organization needs it, and who should own it. Lauren illustrates the value of data governance frameworks, and shows you how to write a mission statement for data usage in your organization. She explains what data stewards are, why these aren’t purely technical roles, and how to convene your stewards to create a data governance council that prioritizes the most high-value initiatives.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Building a data-driven culture

1. Find Your Data Framework

02 - Clarifying your company's mission statement
03 - Writing your data governance mission statement
04 - What are frameworks, and how can they help data governance

2. Select Data Stewards

05 - What are data stewards
06 - Key tasks that data stewards perform
07 - Differences between business and technical data stewards
08 - Motivating data stewards to help

3. Build Your Data Governance Council

09 - What is a data governance council
10 - Finding an effective sponsor for data governance council
11 - Convincing colleagues to join your data governance council
12 - Prioritizing actions for your data governance council

4. Tackle Your First Data Governance Tasks

13 - Defining data domains
14 - Data dictionaries
15 - Writing data dictionaries
16 - Prioritizing projects for your data governance council

Conclusion

17 - Next steps and additional resources

Designing Data Governance

Authors

Lauren Maffeo