One of the biggest impediments to (and failures of) a new data governance program is the perceived level of “extras” required. Let’s enumerate some of the concerns that I hear consistently from our clients: Extra people will be required to staff the implementation. Extra budget money will be needed to fund the
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The burden of data governance: top 10 fallacies
Aborting a SAS/IML program upon encountering an error
A colleague sent me an interesting question: What is the best way to abort a SAS/IML program? For example, you might want to abort a program if the data is singular or does not contain a sufficient number of observations or variables. As a first attempt would be to try
How can you communicate progress on a data migration project?
One of the big problems with data migration projects is that, to the outside sponsor, they appear very much like a black box. You may be told that lots of activities and hustle are taking place, but there isn’t a great deal to show for it until the final make-or-break