Data Stewardship: An Actionable Guide to Effective Data Management and Data Governance

by David Plotkin

Data stewards in any organization are the backbone of a successful data governance implementation because they do the work to make data trusted, dependable, and high quality. Since the publication of the first edition, there have been critical new developments in the field, such as integrating Data Stewardship into project management, handling Data Stewardship in large international companies, handling "big data" and Data Lakes, and a pivot in the overall thinking around the best way to align data stewardship to the data—moving from business/organizational function to data domain. Furthermore, the role of process in data stewardship is now recognized as key and needed to be covered.Data Stewardship, Second Edition provides clear and concise practical advice on implementing and running data stewardship, including guidelines on how to organize based on organizational/company structure, business functions, and data ownership. The book shows data managers how to gain support for a stewardship effort, maintain that support over the long-term, and measure the success of the data stewardship effort. It includes detailed lists of responsibilities for each type of data steward and strategies to help the Data Governance Program Office work effectively with the data stewards. Includes an enhanced section on data governance/stewardship structure for companies that do business internationally, including the structure of business terms to account for country differences Outlines the advantages and disadvantages of "data domains," details on suggested data domains and data domain structures, as well as data governance by data domains Integrates data governance into Project methodology, defining roles on a project, adding Data Governance tasks to the Work Breakdown Structure, as well as advantages of working closely with the Project management Office Covers the data stewardship involved in implementing national and international data privacy regulations

Genres: Nonfiction, Business

309 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 31, 2020

Reviews

[Lara · Rating 4 out of 5]

As someone currently on their DAMA/CDMP journey, this has been a really valuable resource to understand stewardship in all its different flavours. I took one star off due to the poor editing work - the glaring errors and typos were frustrating in a professional text as well as the 1990s/2000s era looking figures. However, the content comes from a professional who has been in the field for over 30 years with clear expertise. This is a great source of knowledge for someone building a data strategy or is new to governance. Governance is really hard to make engaging as an objectively dull subject. Plotkin does his best to make the content engaging, and is fairly successfull although you should not be expecting Marvel movie level fun of course.