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