Preconference Tutorials• Agenda
Monday - 2 February 2009 – 09:30-17:00
09:00–12:15 Morning Tutorial A Step by Step Strategy for Successful Enterprise Data Governance
Mike Ferguson, Managing Director, Intelligent Business Strategies
09:00–12:15 Morning Tutorial Supporting SOA-Metadata and Governance in Action
Peter Aiken, Associate Professor, VCU/Data Blueprint
09:00–12:15 Morning Tutorial Developing and Sustaining the Changes Required for Data Governance Success
John Ladley, President, IMCue Solutions
Pam Thomas, Vice President, IMCue Solutions
13:15–16:30 Afternoon Tutorial How to Build a Data Governance Programme from Scratch - A Practitioner’s Experiences
David Plotkin, Manager of Data Quality, American Automobile Association
13:15–16:30 Afternoon Tutorial A Governance Framework for Master Data Management
Malcolm Chisholm, President, AskGet.com Inc
13:15–16:30 Afternoon Tutorial Architected Data Governance
Guy Tozer, Principal Associate, Doriq Associates
16:40–17:30 Panel Discussion Data Governance - What You Really Need to Know
Moderator:
Malcolm Chisholm, President, AskGet.com Inc

Panellists:
Peter Aiken, Associate Professor, VCU/Data Blueprint
John Ladley, President, IMCue Solutions

David Plotkin, Manager of Data Quality, American Automobile Association
Mike Ferguson, Managing Director, Intelligent Business Strategies

Malcolm Chisholm, President, AskGet.com Inc
Guy Tozer, Principal Associate, Doriq Associates

09:00-12:15
A Step by Step Strategy for Successful Enterprise Data Governance

Mike Ferguson Mike Ferguson
Managing Director
Intelligent Business Strategies

This tutorial presents a strategic guide on how to implement an Enterprise Data Governance to systematically get control of all core data in the enterprise, whether it is used in operational or analytical processes. It looks at why data governance has to be elevated to being an enterprise initiative with enterprise level sponsorship and what has to get done in terms of organisational structure, processes, and technologies to achieve trusted, traceable, commonly managed data for use anywhere in the enterprise.

  • Setting a target vision and objectives for enterprise data governance
  • Assessing and gauging your current level of data governance maturity
  • Defining a roadmap for enterprise data governance
  • Why do it? – Presenting the business case for enterprise data governance
  • Establishing an enterprise data governance programme
  • Organisation structure needed
  • Technology components required for enterprise data governance
  • Why data quality is central to a data governance programme
  • Processes and controls for truly governing data
  • A ‘how to’ methodology to get data under control
  • Developing trusted information services to standardise re-use
  • Options for sharing trusted data across applications and databases

09:00-12:15
Supporting SOA-Metadata and Governance in Action

Peter Aiken Peter Aiken
Associate Professor
VCU/Data Blueprint

As organizations attempt to adopt and implement advanced technologies, they often discover that a successful implementation requires a higher degree of data governance maturity than had been anticipated. SOA provides us with a textbook example but the lessons learned here also apply to other major organizational data-driven initiatives. Key drivers behind SOA include:

  • Changing focus from managing systems to managing at least an order of magnitude more services
  • Architecting those services to be flexible and adaptable in order to obtain the desired service reuse
  • Providing increased guidance over both the architecting/engineering of services and their use by requisite business processes.

It is impossible to manage the above without implementing a mature data governance process. This tutorial describes the how organizations should use a data governance-based approach when implementing SOA and other projects that are dependent on proper metadata management. We show how to use data governance to "size" projects, set mutually agreed upon business and technical expectations, and perform verification and validation of key project milestones and deliverables. Attendees will understand the:

  • Key elements of data governance required in order to manage the required metadata
  • The hard and soft skill sets that are mandated in order to achieve success

09:00-12:15
Developing and Sustaining the Changes Required for Data Governance Success

John Ladley John Ladley
President
IMCue Solutions
Pam Thomas Pam Thomas
Vice President
IMCue Solutions

This tutorial is specifically aimed at planning the steps of a change management effort unique to data governance. This tutorial will present the steps required to build the data governance program road map – and cover in detail the barriers to overcome and sustain the many efforts and initiatives required for successful governance. Attendees will leave with a basic tool kit for developing their own plan to ensure that the changes required for successful data governance are specified, monitored, and sustained.

  • The basics of culture change
    • Culture scorecards
    • Types of change processes
  • Specific issues of change with data governance efforts
    • Discerning information maturity
    • Identify and mitigate resistance and turf wars
    • Reinforce the business benefits
    • How to cross organization silos
  • Building the change plan
    • Aligning a plan with business culture
    • Building the business case for change management
    • Being pragmatic about the culture change plan
    • Presenting and utilizing a change plan
    • Training and Talking to Business Leadership
  • Building and maintaining the change team
    • Who should be on the team?
    • How is change measured?

13:15-16:30
How to Build a Data Governance Programme from Scratch - A Practitioner’s Experiences

David Plotkin David Plotkin
Manager of Data Quality
American Automobile Association

With the idea of Data Governance gaining wide acceptance, the question remains – how do you execute on this idea? What should the organization look like? What about stewardship (and what are stewards anyway - and where do they come from)? This session will also cover topics such as what should be governed, the parts of the organization that must contribute to a successful implementation, and how you start the enterprise down a path to create and govern metadata and data quality. You are going to have to change the culture of the organization and sell the idea of governance into the organization from top to bottom. You'll learn how to do that too. In the end, you should walk away from this tutorial with a clear idea of how to build a successful Data Governance practice starting from nothing (or very little, anyway). .


13:15-16:30
A Governance Framework for Master Data Management

Malcolm Chisholm Malcolm Chisholm
President
AskGet.com

Master Data Management (MDM) is a complex, long-term, multi-dimensional program. This means that governance is much more necessary than in stand-alone projects, and lack of governance is one of the biggest risks in MDM. This tutorial describes the different components of governance needed to successfully implement MDM. The dependencies and sequencing between these components is examined, along with the infrastructure and business processes that have to be provided to implement them. The relationships with relevant functions within IT and the business area of the enterprise are reviewed in detail. Management of these communities of stakeholders is vital to the success of MDM and it cannot be done in an ad-hoc manner. Also, governance during the build-out of the MDM competency is distinguished from governance required for successfully operating a production MDM environment. Governance is firmly emphasized as being logically prior to the MDM tasks which are to be governed, and techniques for making the case for governance, and developing governance components are described. Attendees will learn:

  • What the components of the framework for governance of MDM are
  • How to gain acceptance and plan for the governance framework
  • The business processes and infrastructure that have to be put in place for the MDM governance framework
  • Monitoring and evaluating the MDM governance framework, as part of the framework itself
  • Implementing the governance framework in a coordinated way with the underlying MDM program

13:15-16:30
Architected Data Governance

Guy Tozer

Guy Tozer
Principal Associate
Doriq Associates

Effective Data Governance relies on a comprehensive, commonly agreed framework of rules, through which the behaviour and use of data is controlled. In organisations where a formal Enterprise Architecture function is in place, these rules should be reflected in the Information Architecture, and its links to the other architectural layers (in particular the Business Architecture). This presentation explains, by providing and discussing a series of structured knowledge models, the way in which architectural rigour is applied to Data Governance. The audience will be shown how such an approach:

  • Addresses each of the 15 categories of Data Quality problem
  • Implicitly provides a business-value centred approach to Data Governance
  • Limits risk
  • Provides a consistent backbone for measuring Data Governance effectiveness

16:40-17:30
Panel Discussion : Data Governance - What You Really Need to Know

Join us for a special panel session with the conference's tutorial presenters. This is a unique opportunity on the first day of the event for you to bring your questions and issues on governance to a group of experts. There will be ample time for questions and comments from the audience. Topics that will be discussed include

  • Starting a data governance programme
  • Pitfalls to avoid
  • Tips for gaining support for your programme
  • Data governance and the world’s current financial crisis – how can it help?
  • Governance and cloud computing.

Moderator:
Malcolm Chisholm Malcolm Chisholm
President
AskGet.com

Panellists:
Peter Aiken Peter Aiken
Associate Professor
VCU/Data Blueprint
   
John Ladley John Ladley
President
IMCue Solutions
   
David Plotkin David Plotkin
Manager of Data Quality
American Automobile Association
   
Mike Ferguson Mike Ferguson
Managing Director
Intelligent Business Strategies
   
Guy Tozer

Guy Tozer
Principal Associate
Doriq Associates