Transitioning to day-to-day remediation

Sometimes, organizations that have just completed their first data quality initiative lack the building blocks required to make remediation part of their employees’ day-to-day responsibilities. When the intensive project-based remediation ends, there is no mechanism to “pick up the baton” and continue. As described in Chapter 8, often, it is not practical to complete all the data correction required against a particular rule, so some proportion of the work remains. The hope is that the amount of work remaining is small enough (or of a reduced urgency) so that a business-as-usual team could manage it.

This section is about how the work should be transitioned from a project phase into business as usual and what mechanisms and building blocks must be set up to accommodate this. The starting point is to outline what is required for success and how this might be put in place.

Requirements for success

For a team to be...