Data Management and Data Governance 103: The Yang Force of Data Management
I would like to take a closer look at data management, as it is the ‘Yang force’ in this duality, meaning it has an active, and leading role within the relationship...
Scope your Data Management Initiative by Using Critical Data Elements
Recently, the concept of critical data has caught the attention of a lot of data management professionals. I myself was no exception, so I decided to dive deeper into this subject and do some research. In this article, I would like to share some results of my research and my experience with definitions of critical data and critical data elements (CDEs), reasons to use CDEs and key...
Data Lineage 102: Definition and Key Components
Nowadays, when someone starts talking to me about data lineage, the first question I ask is: ‘what do you mean by “data lineage”’? What is your understanding of data lineage? Believe it or not, but so far, I haven’t met a person whose definition and understanding of data lineage has perfectly corresponded with mine, or others that I have encountered over the years. The reason for that is that you...
Data Lineage 101: What’s so Special about Data lineage?
During the past few years, I have noticed a quick growth of interest towards data lineage. Data lineage has become a hot topic in the data management community. Being deeply involved in practical implementation of data lineage for the past two years, I would like to share my knowledge and experience with you...
What Does Data Management Have in Common with… an Orange?
The analogy of an orange and data management (DM) models came to my mind when I was writing about my analysis of well-known data management metamodels and different maturity models of data management. The orange symbolized my attempts to...
Data Management Maturity Models: a Comparative Analysis
In data management (DM), we have a plenty of data management maturity models, the most well-known are: DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM, CMMI CERT-RMM (Data Management Maturity Model) by CMMI, and a few others. When I look at all of these models...
