Listen to this article: The Data Management Association (DAMA) first published its Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK) in 2009. In it was the now-familiar DMBOK wheel diagram. It has undergone some minor revisions since then, but nearly two decades later, it Read more
Listen to this article: Imagine you’re a product manager in Marketing. You use data every day. Then someone tells you, “Congratulations, you’re a Data Steward.” Your first question is perfectly reasonable: What am I expected to do differently tomorrow morning? Read more
Listen to this article: An executive is in a meeting with the CEO. The executive shares a report. The CEO asks, “Do you trust this report?” The executive replies, “Yes.” To which the CEO responds, “Why?” How often is that Read more
Listen to this article: If you work with data, this may be the most important article you’ll read today. This week. Maybe even this year. It’s a bold claim, I know, but our profession needs to reorient its thinking. We Read more
Listen to this article: Would it come as a surprise to learn that “slop” was Merriam-Webster’s official 2025 Word of the Year? Me neither. Every day I see articles lamenting AI slop. I’d like to suggest a different perspective: Not Read more
Listen to this article: One of my favorite parts about doing this blog is the regular opportunity to explore ideas. It is called the Reservoir of Ideas after all. Some have found their way into articles. Others were either too Read more
Listen to this article: Through several articles this year, I’ve laid out a process for implementing Data Products, from Phase Negative One to Phase Five. Wouldn’t it be great it projects could be run that way? Everyone is aligned before Read more
Listen to this article: I was introduced to R.E.M. my freshman year in college. They played at Page Auditorium on campus about a month into the school year. The guy in the dorm room next door spent the rest of Read more
Listen to this article: They probably are. That’s right, I said it. Most Data Quality metrics are useless. Of course, that assumes that you have any to begin with. And by the time you finish this article you’ll agree with Read more
Listen to this article: Imagine it’s all done. Well, it’s never all done, but imagine it’s all there: definitions, expected content, data models, profiling, documentation, support processes. Everything we’ve spent so much time trying to make happen. It’s all there. Read more