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Data Warehouse Governance
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AVID
M
W
ALKER
Version: 1.1Date: 06/04/2007
Data Management & Warehousing138 Finchampstead Road, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG41 2NU, United Kingdomhttp://www.datamgmt.com
Data Management & Warehousing
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents......................................................................................................................2
Synopsis....................................................................................................................................3
Intended Audience....................................................................................................................3
About Data Management & Warehousing.................................................................................3
Introduction................................................................................................................................4
What is governance?.................................................................................................................5
What affects the data warehouse?............................................................................................6
What is affected within the data warehouse?............................................................................7
How often will change occur?....................................................................................................9
What organisational structures are needed?...........................................................................10
Executive Sponsor(s)..........................................................................................................10
Steering Committee............................................................................................................11
Programme Management...................................................................................................11
Implementation Teams........................................................................................................12
Exploitation Teams..............................................................................................................12
User Forums.......................................................................................................................12
Certification Committee.......................................................................................................13
Project Development Methodologies.......................................................................................14
Waterfall..............................................................................................................................14
Iterative...............................................................................................................................14
Agile....................................................................................................................................15
Cowboy Coding...................................................................................................................16
Best practices..........................................................................................................................17
Momentum..........................................................................................................................17
Monitor and Measure..........................................................................................................17
Prioritise..............................................................................................................................17
Light touch...........................................................................................................................17
Communication...................................................................................................................17
Standards............................................................................................................................18
Track processes..................................................................................................................18
Understand cost and value.................................................................................................18
Continuous Learning and Improvement..............................................................................18
Pilot & Prototype.................................................................................................................18
Authority to act....................................................................................................................18
Plan for the long term..........................................................................................................19
Governance and Success.......................................................................................................19
Summary.................................................................................................................................20
Appendices..............................................................................................................................21
Appendix 1 - Programme or Project?..................................................................................21
Appendix 2 – The "Declaration of Interdependence"..........................................................22
Appendix 3 - Team Values and Principles..........................................................................23
References..............................................................................................................................24
Web resources....................................................................................................................24
Acknowledgements.................................................................................................................24
Copyright.................................................................................................................................24
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Synopsis
An organisation that is embarking on a data warehousing project is undertaking a long-termdevelopment and maintenance programme of a computer system. This system will be criticalto the organisation and cost a significant amount of money, therefore control of the system isvital. Governance defines the model the organisation will use to ensure optimal use and re-use of the data warehouse and enforcement of corporate policies (e.g. business design,technical design and application security) and ultimately derive value for money.This paper has identified five sources of change to the system and the aspects of the systemthat these sources of change will influence in order to assist the organisation to developstandards and structures to support the development and maintenance of the solution. Thesestandards and structures must then evolve, as the programme develops to meet its changingneeds.
“Documentation is not understanding, process is not discipline, formality is not skill”
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The best governance must only be an aid to the development and not an end in itself. DataWarehouses are successful because of good understanding, discipline and the skill of thoseinvolved. On the other hand systems built to a template without understanding, discipline andskill will inevitably deliver a system that fails to meet the users’ needs and sooner rather thanlater will be left on the shelf, or maintained at a very high cost but with little real use.
Intended Audience
Reader Recommended ReadingExecutive Synopsis and SummaryBusiness Users Entire DocumentIT Management Entire DocumentIT Strategy Entire DocumentIT Project Management Entire DocumentIT Developers Entire Document
About Data Management & Warehousing
Data Management & Warehousing is a specialist consultancy in data warehousing based inWokingham, Berkshire in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1995 by David M Walker, our consultants have worked for major corporations around the world including the US, Europe,Africa and the Middle East. Our clients are invariably large organisations with a pressing needfor business intelligence. We have worked in many industry sectors but have specialists inTelco’s, manufacturing, retail, financial and transport as well as technical expertise in many of the leading technologies.For further information visit our website at:http://www.datamgmt.com
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Agile Software Development, Cockburn, A., Addison-Wesley, 2002
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