KIK CONSULTING & EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, LLC
Robert S. Seiner – President & Principal Consultant

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Course Description

Data Stewardship programs are implemented to reduce information technology costs and improve the value companies gain from their data assets.  Stewardship programs focus on improving data quality, reducing data duplication, formalizing accountability for data, and improving business and IT productivity.  An effective Data Stewardship program will rapidly improve the ROI from data warehousing and business intelligence efforts, application integration efforts, ERP, CRM, content and knowledge management, and EAI efforts.  Students of this class will learn about the components of an effective Data Stewardship program and how to immediately formulate a strategy that can deliver results with minimal investment.

Audience

Students should be in a position to define a data stewardship program and policy for their company.  Students may include CIOs, IT Directors, Business and Data Managers, Solution Architects, Data Architects, and Consultants that are charged with reduction of Information Technology costs and IT / Data Quality Improvement.

Updated Topics 

A.           Day One – Morning – Approximately 3 to 3.5 hours

·         Defining Data Governance and Data Stewardship Approaches (Non-Invasive, 3-D, 2x4, …)

·         Keeping Data Governance Practical in the Organizational Context

·         Defining Data Governance & Data Stewardship, Key Concepts & Best Practices

·         Building and/or Enhancing Data Governance Policy, Directives, Guidelines

·         Framing/Selling a Data Governance/Stewardship Program in a Corporate Context

·         Defining Data Governance/Stewardship Program Business and Technical Goals and Objectives

·         Defining Measurements and Metrics of Data Governance/Stewardship Success

B.           Day One – Afternoon – Approximately 3 to 3.5 hours

·         Defining Data Governance/Stewardship Program Critical Success Factors

·         Contending with Organizational (In)Tolerance for Change

·         Defining Data Stewardship Program Management Roles, Responsibilities, Time Commitments

·         Defining Participating Data Steward Roles & Responsibilities, Time Commitments and Tasks

·         Managing Data by Domains, Master Data and Subject Area 

·         Identifying Vs. Assigning Appropriate Data Stewards, Steward Criteria and Traits

B.           Day TWO – MORNING – Approximately 3 to 3.5 hours

·         Developing Data Governance/Stewardship Tools, Work Flow, Process/Methodology Integration

·         Work Flow & Process Integration Through Proactive and Reactive Data Governance

·         Developing Conflict Resolution Paths – Design, Production, Usage Conflicts

·         Developing Conceptual Meta-Models to Support Governance/Stewardship Programs

·         Identifying Sources of Data Steward Meta-Data and Mapping to the Meta-Model

·         Recording and Managing Data Stewardship Meta-Data

·         Developing Data Stewardship Change Management Procedures and Notification

    Day Two – Afternoon

·         Implementing a Common Data Matrix, Data Governance Activity Matrix, DQ & Issue Log, …

·         Understanding Data Governance/Stewardship Beyond Structured Data

·         Identifying the “Best” Place to Start a Data Governance/Stewardship Program (if necessary)

·         Developing Next Steps/Action Plan to Build Data Governance/Stewardship Program

·         Developing a Plan to Market Data Governance/Stewardship

Take Aways or Course Deliverables

This is a solution-focused course.  Expected deliverables will include …

• A statement of data stewardship business and technical goals and objectives

• Preliminary measures and metrics of data stewardship success

• Preliminary definition of data stewardship roles & responsibilities

• Proposed means of identifying appropriate data stewards

• A preliminary conceptual meta-model (design) of a database to record data stewardship meta-data

• Preliminary data stewardship identification rules and tasks for capturing and recording stewardship meta-data

• Templates for identifying the most appropriate place to start a data stewardship effort (if necessary)

Pre-Requisites

Students should have a background, knowledge and understanding of data and information management terminology, principles and best practices.

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Contact Information

Robert S. Seiner – rseiner@kikconsulting.com
KIK Consulting & Educational Services, LLC – KIKconsulting.com
The Data Administration Newsletter, LLC – TDAN.com
P.O. Box 112571, Pittsburgh, PA 15241
412-220-9643, 412-220-9644 Fax, 412-719-8318 Mobile

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