So, the facilitated session is over. You have gathered a tremendous amount of information, and you may be wondering what to do now. I like to categorize all the information, and hopefully during the session you did some prioritization of the requirements based on company goals. If you have never
How do you convince executives, frontline workers, middle managers and everyone else in your organization that data quality is a worthwhile activity for them to support? The answer is to tap into their personal motivation. It is one of the most important data quality lessons to master because everything else
Truth is a funny thing. And I don’t just mean how some true things are funny. A few examples include that strawberries are not berries, peanuts are not nuts, Chock Full o’Nuts coffee does not contain nuts, and the singer-songwriter Barry Manilow did not write his hit song “I Write
Transaction systems maintain synchronization of the stages of their execution sequences. That is a fact; otherwise users would never trust that the results of the process (think about it – you would not want to incur a service fee at your bank because your withdrawal was inadvertently processed before the
Facilitated sessions are an excellent way of gaining additional insight into the requirements and expectations for any conversion project. What I have found is that most of the participants in a facilitated session have different agendas and different priorities for the project, so the facilitator must be neutral. Usually 5-8
Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen recently blogged about the times when a HiPPO (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion) outweighs data in business decision-making. While I have seen plenty of hefty opinions trump high-quality data, those opinions did not always come from the highest paid person. The stubborn truth is that we all hold our
Great works of fiction are filled with dynamic duos. Sherlock Holmes and Mr. Watson. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. And, of course, superheroes like Batman and Robin. On Thursday, Nov. 5 at 1 p.m. ET, two real-world Hadoop superheroes – Arun C. Murthy, co-founder of Hortonworks, and Paul Kent, vice president of big
A way of paraphrasing what I suggested in my last post was that as master data practitioners, we are often focused too much on pulling data from source systems to populate a master entity model and not focused enough on understanding how dependencies across business processes may influence the proper
