A Complete Guide To Data Stewardship

Two-Day Seminar
Thursday, December 6 and Friday, December 7

Seminar Hours
Thursday, December 6
8:30AM - 4:30PM

Friday, December 7
8:30AM - 4:00PM

Led by David Plotkin, Director of Metadata Services, MUFG

Data Governance is a crucial piece of properly using your data and improving the quality of your data. And Data Stewardship is a critical piece of Data Governance - data stewards are your decision-makers about what data means, how it is derived, what rules to apply to determine data quality, and what data quality issues are worth spending resources on. More and more companies are coming to terms with the fact that they need to have a data stewardship function in order to be effective in collecting metadata (including definitions, derivations, and data quality rules), MDM, and data quality. A lot has been said and spoken about why stewardship is important, but HOW do you do it and be effective with limited resources (in the "real world")?

This seminar details how to set up a data stewardship function, provide training for your stewards, and run the entire stewardship effort - including managing the Data Stewardship Committee. You'll need help from IT for folks who know the systems and ETL, and this presentation tells you how to coordinate your efforts, including recruiting help from IT for technical stewards, evaluating and installing Data Governance / Stewardship toolsets, and leveraging an IT sponsor.

We will go into considerable detail on what the roles and responsibilities of the data stewards are, what decisions they have to make, and what processes have to be used in order to make those decisions. In addition, it covers how to staff projects for stewardship and funnel the information from projects back into the overall stewardship process. Communications are another important part of stewardship, and we'll discuss what meetings are needed, what a communications plan looks like, how to report on your stewardship progress, and how to avoid getting overwhelmed by meetings by leveraging modern collaboration tools.

You Will Learn:

  • The relationship between data governance and data stewardship
  • How to build and staff governance and stewardship organization
  • How to recruit stewards and who in the organization is responsible for designating stewards
  • What type of person you need in the stewardship role
  • What the steward's responsibilities are
  • What the stewardship process looks like
  • How to break up responsibilities by functional area
  • Resources you can use to minimize endless meetings
  • What the decision process is
  • How to avoid overwhelming stewards when you have a lot of projects
  • What and how to document decisions
  • A list of Data Stewardship Best Practices
  • How to train your stewards to do what they must do
  • How to orchestrate a communications plan
  • How to build a status report for stewardship and governance
  • How to incorporate your stewards into the responsibilities of Information Security
  • What the Stewardship maturity model looks like, and how to rank your stewardship effort

Comments from Past Attendees of the Stewardship Workshop

“David is a wealth of practical experience and can relate to pretty much any industry.”

“Great workshop! Lots to take away and use at office!”

“Excellent primer on data governance and quality.”

 “A++ - so happy I chose this one!  Wonderful examples that can be used in any industry.”

 “Awesome, engaging speaker.”

“Great overall session. Speaker was extremely knowledgeable.”

“Exceeded expectations.”

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About the Instructor

David Plotkin   David Plotkin is the Director of Metadata Services at MUFG, directing metadata activity in support of data management, including applications such as Collibra Data Governance Center. He was formerly the Data Governance Competency Center Manager for Wells Fargo, working heavily in Data Stewardship and Metadata. He was also Global Head of Data Stewardship for AIG, where he was responsible for rolling out data stewardship as part of an overall Data Governance and Data Management effort. He has previously been a consultant for EMC, working on data quality, data governance and master data management engagements at client companies. He has also previously managed Data Governance at an insurance company and managed data quality at two large banks.  He has been working with data governance, data modeling, metadata and data quality for nearly 30 years. He is a popular speaker at DAMA chapters and conferences, and serves as a subject matter expert on many topics around metadata, data governance, business rules, and data quality. He also is the author of the book “Data Stewardship, an actionable guide to effective Data Management and Data Governance”.