The first few weeks after budget approval
In Chapter 2, the data quality improvement cycle outlined the activities that were then costed and planned in Chapter 3. For simplicity, the cycle and the example project plans in those chapters show each of the activities happening in a sequence – generally starting only after another has been completed.
The reality is somewhat different though, for example:
- While working on data discovery work (covered in Chapter 5), you will inevitably uncover some live and critical data quality issues that cannot wait until the remediation phase to be addressed.
- Typically, the phase where data quality rules are built by developers will start while design work is still going on. Usually, groups of data quality rules that were agreed upon at the start of the design phase are released to developers to work on in parallel to the design work – to extend the development phase and to allow for some refinement/clarification of the rules...
