| When working on a Data Governance program, | | | | 1-5 scale. A 1 usually means you have no control |
| there are some things that are critical to your | | | | over it, and a 5 generally means you have full |
| success. Metrics is one of these - you must be | | | | control over it. |
| able to clearly show where you were, where you | | | | Now, how do you want to track these maturity |
| are going, and what you have accomplished. If | | | | levels? Well, you could dump all your in scope field |
| you can't do this, good luck getting executive | | | | names into yet another spreadsheet and then |
| buy-in! | | | | track them in Excel... or, how about this... have |
| A wonderful item I discovered while developing | | | | your Data Modelers track it in their data modeling |
| good metrics for my program was to create a | | | | tool! |
| Maturity Model. I've written about these before, | | | | What we did was we added a new attribute to |
| and if you need more information, visit my blog | | | | fields called maturity level. Then, in that field we |
| for a 5 day course on creating a maturity model. | | | | just assign the number that the field currently |
| In essense, a maturity model is a way to display | | | | resides at. You can then do cool stuff like pull all |
| trends in your data. Is it getting cleaner? Is it | | | | level 1 data, or all level 5 data, or anything less |
| messy? What is good, and what isn't? Think of it | | | | than level 3. |
| as a sort of rating system for your in-scope data. | | | | This is a very powerful tool that is overlooked, |
| A maturity model generally ranks your data one a | | | | leverage your data modelers!!! |