Governing remediation activities
Once the prioritization is complete, the approach has been identified, and the effort involved has been understood, the remediation activities begin. Just as with any other project-style activity, remediation must be governed.
Governance in this instance means the following:
- Tracking the remediation activities against the expected effort/elapsed time
- Reporting to senior leaders on the progress of the activity
- Understanding risks, issues, and “blockers” that need to be managed or mitigated
- Ensuring that when the project activity is done, ongoing work is transitioned into a business-as-usual process
When organizations start to remediate data quality issues for the first time, it has to be managed quite formally. This is simply because the organization has no established processes, best practices, and institutional knowledge in this area. Some organizations that I have worked with have decided to simply assign...
