Data Governance Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Data Governance Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Data Governance related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Data Governance specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Data Governance Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 994 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Data Governance improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:


1. Does generative ai and large language models represent a significant change to the governance principles of managing availability, usability, integrity, and security of enterprise data?
   
   

2. Are there cohesive frameworks for digital transformation that encompass disruptive technologies, culture, data driven decision making, and operational effectiveness?
   
   

3. What about enforcing compliance across a distributed workforce that must be able to access organizational resources from anywhere, on any device and at any time?
   
   

4. How important are issues related to encryption key material quality, as randomness, lifecycle management and compliance, when adopting an encryption solution?
   
   

5. How do you build your data collection systems to collect robust information while still keeping client need and fast paced programming at the forefront?
   
   

6. Is this the primary and most complete unprocessed version of the data, to which no irreversible transformations have been applied?
   
   

7. Are the observations and related products available online based on open, standard technology to enable data integration?
   
   

8. Is a relational database purpose built for a normalized schema and to enforce referential integrity in the database?
   
   

9. Who is typically involved in inquiries and data analysis to understand if your learning transformation is working?
   
   

10. Do you have appropriate transformation capabilities to cleanse and aggregate data to prepare it for analysis?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Data Governance book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Data Governance self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Data Governance Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Data Governance areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Data Governance Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Data Governance projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Data Governance Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Data Governance project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Risk Management Plan: For software; does the software interface with new or unproven hardware or unproven vendor products?
   
   

2. Probability and Impact Assessment: Does the software interface with new or unproven hardware or unproven vendor products?
   
   

3. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: How well did the chosen processes fit the needs of the Data Governance project?
   
   

4. Human Resource Management Plan: Are there checklists created to determine if all quality processes are followed?
   
   

5. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Where are the good opportunities facing your organizations development?
   
   

6. Procurement Audit: Is your organization aware and informed about international procurement standards and good practice?
   
   

7. Team Directory: Process decisions: which organizational elements and which individuals will be assigned management functions?
   
   

8. Schedule Management Plan: Is Data Governance project status reviewed with the steering and executive teams at appropriate intervals?
   
   

9. Activity Duration Estimates: Are Data Governance project records organized, maintained, and assessable by Data Governance project team members?
   
   

10. Project Performance Report: To what degree do the relationships of the informal organization motivate taskrelevant behavior and facilitate task completion?


 
Step-by-step and complete Data Governance Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Data Governance project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Data Governance project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Data Governance project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Data Governance project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Data Governance project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Data Governance project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Data Governance project with this in-depth Data Governance Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Data Governance projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Data Governance and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Data Governance investments work better.

This Data Governance All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.