Tutorials - June 2, 2008
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| 8:30 - 11:45 MORNING TUTORIALS | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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How to Deploy and Sustain
a Data Governance Practice in Your Organization Martha Dember, RCG Information Technology Robert Abate, RCG Information Technology This session serves to demonstrate how an organization implements and sustains a data governance practice. During the session pitfalls to avoid, lessons learned from prior implementations and best practices will be discussed. This presentation is based on real life implementations over the past 6-7 years with updates from what we have learned in the pat two years, from what has worked well and what has not. Agenda:
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A Step-By-Step Approach
to Data Governance Communications Gwen Thomas, Data Governance Institute Data Governance requires constant communications between program staff, executives, stakeholders, stewards, and members of cross-functional teams. Successful programs employ a structured, methodical approach and easy-to-use tools. This tutorial takes a step-by-step approach to governance communications. We show how to break communications into a series of manageable tasks. Then, for each task, participants will see best practices and templates, review actual communications pieces and complete exercises to create their own versions. Attendees will learn how to use communication tools to:
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The Stewardship Approach
to Data Governance: Let's Be Practical Robert S. Seiner, KIK Consulting/TDAN.com Many companies insert the data governance discipline into their organizations rather than apply data governance to the existing culture. Trying to change how your organization "does what it does" is a difficult and very involved task. Since the discipline of data governance is new (in name and in practice) at most organizations, the "non-invasive" approach discussed is this workshop will help you to gain the support and involvement of the true data stewards. What is the “non-invasive” approach to Data Governance? This approach involves identifying and recognizing data stewards rather than assigning data stewards to have more responsibility. This approach involves applying governance and stewardship activities to existing practices and standard operating procedures rather than creating all new procedures. This approach involves leveraging what is already working in your organization and focusing on opportunities to improve. The tutorial will focus on:
Throughout this half-day session, Bob Seiner shares his valuable "lessons learned" from many large corporations and government entities through interactive and lively discussion. |
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Optimizing the ERP Environment
through Data Quality and Governance Danette McGilvray, Granite Falls Many companies are migrating data from disparate systems to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications. Information quality can make or break these types of projects – it can help a project stay on time and within budget or break the project by increasing project costs and timelines due to poor quality data. Once the ERP is in production, there are also data quality challenges due to managing data in an integrated environment. Data governance and stewardship also play important roles in the migration project and are critical to the on-going success of the ERP. Topics include:
Come prepared to share your ERP challenges and learn proven methods for optimizing your ERP environment through data quality and governance. |
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- 12:30 GOVERNANCE SOLUTIONS |
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Data Privacy Closing the Gap Thomas Meagher, IBM
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Case Studies – How Leading
Firms Succeed in Data Governance and MDM Ravi Shankar, Siperian Most data governance and MDM initiatives fail even before they begin. Success depends upon employing the correct governance framework and a flexible MDM technology that will support the framework -- in addition to a host of other factors. During this presentation from Siperian, attendees will learn:
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| 1:30 - 4:45 AFTERNOON TUTORIALS | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Developing an Effective
Culture Change Management Plan for Data Governance and Master Data
Management John Ladley, IMCue Solutions Pam Thomas, ChangeConnection This tutorial is specifically aimed at planning the steps of a change management effort focused on governance. This class will use role-playing, and relay actual IM project experiences on managing organization change – and cover in detail the barriers to overcome and the actions required to overcome them. We will examine a governance project and a strategic planning road map effort. Attendees will leave with a basic tool kit for developing their own change management plan specifically aimed at data governance or master data management. Agenda
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Building a Data Governance
Program From Scratch David Plotkin, AAA of Northern California, Nevada, and Utah 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 to 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 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 session with a clear idea of how to build a successful Data Governance practice starting from nothing (or very little, anyway). |
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Data Governance Case
Study Workshop: A Comparison of Programs in All Phases of Implementation Robert S, Seiner, KIK Consulting/TDAN.com This half-day workshop by Robert S. Seiner examines several active Data Governance case studies, the trials and tribulations of getting started, the peaks and valleys of getting rolling, and the open doorways and brick walls of demonstrating value. Not all of these organizations take the same approach and some yield very different results. Listening to, and learning from, their experiences will enable attendees to anticipate the needs of their organization, sell the basic and complex concepts, and provide their management and staff a practical perspective of what data governance will mean to their organization. This workshop focuses on:
This session has been developed to be interactive. Attend prepared
to discuss your organization’s data governance environment,
your successes and opportunities to improve. Expect to take away
best practices and lessons learned from the presenter’s
case studies as well as others that attend this session. |
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Supporting SOA-Metadata
and Governance in Action Peter Aiken, 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:
It is impossible to manage the above without implementing a mature data governance process. This seminar 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:
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| 5:15
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Data Governance
Template Takeaway 6 Great Ways to Make Data Governance Easier Right Now Robert S. Seiner, KIK Consulting / TDAN.com Peter Aiken, VCU/Data Blueprint Gwen Thomas, Data Governance Institute John Ladley, IMCue Solutions Martha Dember, BI and Data Delivery Southeast Region Danette McGilvray, Granite Falls In this special session, Data Governance industry leaders will share the matrices and templates they use to promote and administer successful Data Governance programs. All of these tools are designed to be customized to different environments and will enable you to quickly and effectively add value to your program. Attend prepared to participate in discussion and be ready to
compare and contrast the value added by each. This session is
targeted at providing numerous takeaways and you will leave with
a workbench of proven industry work products and templates. |
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