Duration: 6h
Modality: In-person or Remote
Intended Audience:
Data Stewards, Data Owners, Data Governance Leads, Chief Data Officers, CIOs/CTOs, executive sponsors, and cross-functional teams interested in designing, implementing, and sustaining an effective data governance program.
Brief Description:
A hands-on, approximately 3-hour workshop covering the principles and benefits of data governance, foundational frameworks (DAMA, Peter Aiken), role definitions, organizational structures, and maturity metrics. Includes team exercises to apply learnings to real-world scenarios and draft an initial action plan.
Key Topics:
- Objectives and drivers of data governance: principles, benefits, and use cases
- Reference frameworks and best practices (DAMA, Peter Aiken’s pyramid)
- Designing a governance program: policies, standards, metadata, and quality controls
- Roles & responsibilities: CDO, Data Owner, Data Steward, CISO, DPO, Data Governance Lead
- Organizational structures and operating models (centralized, federated, hybrid, networked)
- Maturity assessment and program components: mission, vision, KPIs, and roadmap
- Support tools and platforms: catalogs, quality controls, and metadata management
- Change management: sponsors (potestas vs. auctoritas), communication plans, rituals, and adoption phases
- Team exercises: solving practical cases, designing a first-3-month and Year-1 roadmap
- Success factors and common pitfalls: execution “recipe” and “anti-recipe” of mistakes
Long Description:
This workshop begins with an assessment of the current state: treating data analytics as a strategic asset versus low cultural adoption (only 31 % of organizations are truly data driven). Participants are then introduced to essential reference frameworks (DAMA, Peter Aiken) and the core components of a governance program (policies, metadata, quality, committees, and tools).
Through interactive team exercises, attendees assume key roles to analyze real-world cases—such as cross-departmental data silos and KPI conflicts—and design a detailed governance roadmap. This roadmap covers committee structures, role definitions, initiative prioritization, and maturity measurement. Finally, the workshop explores the ten execution success factors and the most frequent failure points, enabling participants to craft a concrete action plan for the first three months and the full first year, ensuring adaptability and alignment with organizational culture.