Understanding data quality workstreams
In the previous section, I outlined the following activities, which all need to be started in the first few weeks after the business case is approved:
- Supplier selection for initiative resources, such as data quality rule developers
- Data quality tool selection
- Detailed planning for the data discovery phase, including engagement with IT to get the data quality tool ready for profiling work
- Internal hiring
- Communication
In addition to this, it is highly likely that, in the first data discovery sessions, there will be immediate reports of known data quality issues that are causing significant or even severe impacts on the effectiveness of the organization. For example, at one organization, where my team had committed to work on HR data quality, the very first data discovery meeting uncovered that the data required for the calculation of the annual employee bonus was not of a high enough quality. The bonus calculation...
