Update from Datazed - 7 November 2022

This week I'm preparing for the next Data Governance Get Together, which will be hybrid for the first time. 

We have a guest speaker - Neil Burge - who is over from Singapore and will be talking to us about The Human Side of Data Governance - how you actually get people engaged.

We'd love for you to join us face to face in London, but you can also join us online with people from countries including Australia, Denmark, France, Hong Kong, India and the United States.

The session is at 4pm GMT on Wednesday, 16 November. For those in person, we'll have drinks nearby from 5pm.

Register here

I've also published a new article about Data Governance Committees.  These can be really hard to get right; and even harder to operate once your stakeholders have lost interest.  I'd love to get your thoughts on what has worked (and what hasn't) for you.

You can find the article here

Last week I gave a very short answer to a data governance question on a LinkedIn forum, but it has gained a surprising amount of reactions. 

The question was:

Do you have any tips to plan and implement a Data Quality Strategy?

and all I wrote was

Solve business problems.

Don't fix data quality for the sake of data quality.

Why did this strike such a chord?  Perhaps we spend so long on the detail that we forget our primary objectives?

Have a wonderful week,

Charles

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