Why policies, standards, and procedures can generate buzz

One of the easiest quick wins that you can deliver on the data governance side of your team is to establish effective and easy-to-understand policies, standards, and procedures. In my experience, some of your stakeholders will simply want to be able to self-deliver. I think this is a great signal. It means that you have highly qualified data professionals across your organization who want to be able to get started. However, if they are looking to your team to tell them what to do, how to do it, and how they want to do it in alignment with your team, then these are engaged stakeholders.

One of the best things you can do is provide them with the guidance that they are seeking. The easiest way to do this is to publish guidelines that they can use. While some of your data engineers and analytics professionals are delivering on other quick wins, focused on the more technical components of data governance, other team members can...