Assessing the current state of data governance
We have discussed data governance and how it's different from data management and the ways to implement data governance policies with respect to Salesforce. But before we start to implement data governance policies and tools, it's recommended to do a current state assessment. The reason is that every organization has some form of data governance in place and there is no need to scrap these practices. Rather, we need to understand what these are and identify the gaps. After we validate and realize that the existing policies are adequate, we can turn our attention to these gaps and ensure they are taken care of.
In the following sections, we will discuss what a data governance assessment is, some of the challenges that we may face in an assessment, and high-level steps on how to go about doing it.
Assessing the current landscape
The goal behind a data governance assessment is to document the knowledge, skills, and attitude...
