Workshop D:
Building a Data Stewardship Practice

Registration: 12:30 pm
Workshop starts: 1:00 pm
Workshop ends: 4:00 pm

Facilitator: David Plotkin, Data Governance Manager, American Automobile Association

About the workshop:

More and more companies are coming to terms with the fact that they need to have a data stewardship function in order to be effective in collecting metadata (including definitions, derivations, and data quality rules), MDM, and data quality. A lot has been said and spoken about why stewardship is important, but HOW do you do it and be effective with limited resources (in the “real world”)? This presentation details how to set up a data stewardship function, how to run it, the details of managing the stewardship committee, recruiting help from IT for technical stewards, what the duties of the data stewards are, and what decisions they have to make.  In addition, it covers how to staff projects for stewardship and funnel the information from projects back into the overall stewardship process. You will learn:

»» The relationship between governance and stewardship
»» How to build a governance and stewardship organization
»» How to recruit stewards
»» What the steward’s responsibilities are
»» What the stewardship process looks like
»» How to break up responsibilities by functional area
»» Resources you can use to minimize endless meetings
»» What the decision process is
»» The use of stewards for projects
»» What and how to document decisions

About your workshop leader:

David Plotkin is a Data Quality Manager for Bank of America in the finance department. He is responsible for working with business data owners to improve data quality, report the quality of key business elements via a scorecard, and institute data governance to manage data. He has previously managed data governance at an insurance company and managed data quality at another large bank.  He has been working with data governance, data modeling, metadata, master data, and data quality for over 20 years. He is a popular speaker at DAMA chapters and conferences, and serves as a subject matter expert on many topics around metadata, data governance, and data quality.