Post-deployment

Whether your deployment went well and adoption is progressing nicely, or you had to reapproach adoption as outlined in the section directly before this, you will need to focus on the adoption that occurs post-deployment. Early adopters aside, what happens after go-live is just the beginning of your success as a data professional.

First, assign someone on your team to build out a post-go-live adoption framework. This will include key capabilities such as the following:

1. What is required for post-go-live adoption from us? From stakeholders? From users?
2. What is a reasonable onboarding timeline?
3. How will adoptions be funded?
4. How will we measure success?
5. How will we measure ongoing ROI?

This framework should be flexible enough to be leveraged for any data governance solution that your team deploys but focused enough that your stakeholders know what to expect from you on an ongoing basis.

Adoption roadmap

One of the key areas of your...