Continuing the data quality journey
Chapter 2 showed that data quality work usually takes place through multiple iterations of a cyclical process. We have just described the final step in that process – the transition to business as usual.
The next step is to return to the beginning again (apologies to anyone who thought that they were finished!) and start to scope further data quality work in a new initiative.
This section describes how this can be approached.
Roadmap of data quality initiatives
A single data quality initiative (as described in Chapters 3 to 8) will include a range of different people – from project managers to data quality rule developers. These initiative-based resources will typically leave the organization or return to their original roles when the initiative ends. If there is only ever a need for one initiative, then this is fine, but if it is expected that many initiatives will be needed, then this adds additional cost to the next initiative...
