Data Governance is a team sport. But often you can care more about it, than other teams - so how do you get them interested? Stefania Olafsdottir, CEO at Avo, says “It's like a flywheel. It's better breeds better. If you have, product engineering and data or caring about data. Then teams are invested in shipping quality data, then teams make better decisions and keep improving the user experience and then product and engineering and data all care about data.
And this is like a cycle that sort of reinforces itself, but also it's contagious. So getting started. I always recommend starting with a small team and do a purpose meeting.
We sat down and mapped out what's the goal of the release. What are we trying to impact in the user experience? What's the metric that measures, measures the success of that. And then what are the literal event structures that we need in order to actually visualize this metric somewhere. And I recommend doing this before the product development starts.”
This is a snippet from Who Should Own Data Governance? in which Stefania tackles the question of who should own data governance within a business and outlines what ownership can look like across different teams.
