This is the first part of a multi-part series exploring Data Quality and the ISO 25000 series standard. In the 1964 dark comedy Dr. Strangelove, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb, General Jack D. Ripper orders a nuclear strike on the USSR. Despite efforts to Read more
If you’ve not been in New Orleans during Carnival Season, or if you’ve only been in the French Quarter, my guess is that your perception of Mardi Gras is similar to what mine was: raucous and rowdy, with wall to wall people sloshing around in “gutter brew.” Awesome! Sign me Read more
Data Products are a bigger deal for you (and your company) than AI. You’ll see what I mean shortly. When I first started writing about Data Products, I mentioned my excitement at how information management had finally become the next big thing. Even better, the business was demanding the metadata. Read more
It couldn’t be simpler. When there’s a problem with the car, a light on the dashboard illuminates. It could be the oil pressure. Or the tire pressure. Or the battery. Or the engine temperature. Or the engine. Collectively these are referred to as “idiot lights.” Dashboard warning lights were introduced Read more
A few years ago, while visiting back home in Pittsburgh, a friend and I spent the day at Kennywood Park, a 125-year-old amusement park about 8 miles from downtown. It has one of the country’s best steel roller coasters, but my favorites are the wooden ones built in the 1920s. Read more
Happy New Year, and welcome back to the Reservoir of Ideas. OK, enough pleasantries. I’m going to spend the first part of this year exploring the following observation: Many, if not most organizations have been struggling with the same Information Management and Data Governance challenges for decades. Certainly, we’ve seen Read more
Last week was a (half) marathon. The rest of Christmastime is a sprint. And the season seems to be passing alarmingly fast this year. Turns out, that’s not just perception, it’s fact. Thanksgiving in the United States falls on the fourth Thursday in November. It can be as early as Read more
Each race has its own personality. At least so far. I haven’t done enough that they run together. This was my fifth year participating in St. Jude Marathon Weekend. The first year was to try to stay active during COVID, so I started walking/running around the neighborhood. My goal was Read more
You never know what’s going to happen when you click on a LinkedIn job posting button. I’m always on the lookout for interesting and impactful projects, and one in particular caught my attention: “Far North Enterprises, a global fabrication and distribution establishment, is looking to modernize a very old data Read more
Whenever you get a bunch of technical architects in a room with a whiteboard and markers, it’s not going to be long before somebody goes up to the board and draws a box. Doesn’t matter the kind of architect: solution, application, infrastructure, enterprise, and, yes, data. We love whiteboards. We Read more