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Data Governance: Check and Check Again

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We are progressing in our data governance by building out the framework.  We are moving data into areas that the business can use it but how do we know they should use it?  More importantly how do they know that they CAN use it? So much of what we do relies on trust.  The business trust that we will understand what they need so that we can deliver reliable data.  The first time they find an issue that trust is broken.  Part of our framework builds out data validation processes but how do we put that into practice? One of the first things we will need to do is check ourselves. Y our data governance framework can be used to create natural data quality checkpoints. Is your data pipeline ready to migrate? Did you check it? When your process captured the requirements did you ask who in the business would validate the work? Your processes are the first place to start checking your data. Some specific examples of how you can use your data governance framework to cr...