Presenting findings to stakeholders
Having worked hard to produce these data quality reports, it is critical to ensure that they are launched successfully and embedded into day-to-day business practices.
Launching data quality reporting successfully
The most important feature of a successful data quality reporting launch is that the rules must be accurate and well tested. If the reporting goes live and immediately is shown to include false data quality failures, it is very difficult to keep people engaged.
Usually through a data quality initiative, you will identify data stewards and data producers who are highly engaged and become almost part of the central team. It is a good practice to release the reporting initially to these users, asking them to monitor the outputs regularly for 1-2 weeks until the confidence level is higher.
These users can often then act as champions of the tool when it is released more widely to the business.
It is also highly recommended to...