I’ve covered Data Product implementation requirements at length in several past articles. You need Information, Infrastructure, and Process. Without any portion of any of those you don’t have a Data Product. No metadata? Not a Data Product. No lifecycle management? Not a Data Product. And so on. Data Product development Read more
This is the third part of a multi-part series discussing Data Quality and the ISO 25000 series standard. OK. You’re with the program. You recognize that having quality data is important for accurate AI models. You would even concede that it’s important for other stuff, too, but whatever because AI Read more
Trying to sell Data Governance to corporate leadership is a rite of passage for data professionals…like the Kobayashi Maru test from Star Trek. You’re invited to pitch your proposal. You show slides with councils and processes and RACI charts. In the center sits a metadata repository and business glossary. Partway Read more
This is the second part of a multi-part series discussing Data Quality and the ISO 25000 series standard. The first installment in this series introduced the ISO 25000 series standard (System and Software Engineering — Systems and Software Quality Requirements and Evaluation) with a particular focus on ISO 25012 (Data Quality Read more
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