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In this series, Ian Stahl explores how to focus on "What's Important Now" to build and launch a successful data governance strategy. Ian focuses on three key principles, as defined by Lou Holz, and applies them to data governance.

Win Early: Identify a critical problem, and solve it first. This problem should be apparently painful to the organization, definitely cost money and can be quantified in some way that’s reportable to executive sponsors and stakeholders.

Credibility Matters: Leverage political capital from your early ROI to expand scope of your initiative. The momentum you establish from initial successes will help you tackle the tougher problems down the road.

Walk, Don’t Run: Define a roadmap for comprehensive governance over time. Document “lessons learned” from each expansion into a formal set of agreed policies that inform the next phase.

This series includes the posts below:

Intro: Data Governance: What's Important Now?

Data Governance Principle #1: Win Early

Data Governance Principle #2: Credibility Matters

Data Governance Street Cred: Who Has It?

Data Governance Principle #3: “Walk, Don’t Run”