Complete Guide to Implementing Data Stewardship

This course is designed for two specific audiences. The first audience are those that are charged with the responsibility of building and maintaining a data governance and data stewardship practice in an organization. These are people who are either hired or assigned this responsibility, and it likely represents at least two people from an organization.

The second (and larger) audience are the members of the data stewardship organization (typically those who will sit on the Data Stewardship Council). They are eager to learn what data stewardship IS, what the new organization looks like, what new roles they have, how it will impact their "regular" jobs, and what guidance and training is available to help them be successful. This course IS that training and imparts the answers to all these questions and more. In fact, this course has been given multiple times onsite at a company just starting their data stewardship journey, with all the data stewards in attendance.

It is one thing to set a goal of implementing data stewardship, but quite another thing to actually achieve that goal successfully. There are many steps necessary, and each step requires you to have specific knowledge on how to execute that step. The purpose of this course is to tell you not only WHAT to do to successfully implement data stewardship, but also HOW to do it. It is a practitioner's guide, in that it provides specific instructions on all the steps and processes necessary.

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”)? And what part does stewardship play in Data Governance? This online training course answers these questions and details how to set up a data stewardship function, how to run it, the details of managing the stewardship committee, recruiting help from IT for technical stewards, what the duties of the data stewards are, and what decisions they have to make. In addition, it covers how to staff projects for stewardship and funnel the information from projects back into the overall stewardship process.

This course does not include an exam.

• The relationship between governance and stewardship
• How to build a governance and stewardship organization
• How to build and staff a Data Governance Program Office, and what its responsibilities are.
• How to recruit stewards
• How to train the stewards
• 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 manage the stewardship portion of projects
• The use of stewards for projects
• What and how to document decisions
• The role of stewards in important Enterprise initiatives such as MDM, process risk, Privacy and Compliance (including GDPR), and Data Quality.
• Tools you will need, and what functions they must support.
• Measuring progress and maturity of your effort

Upon completion of the course, you'll receive a certificate of completion from IRM UK, demonstrating your new competencies and knowledge in Enterprise Architecture.