![]() If you were talking about writing a data definition, you would say that a Data Owner is accountable for that definition. To be honest the activities were largely the same, I just changed the language from saying “accountable for”in the Data Owner description to “responsible for”for Data Stewards.Ī few years ago I realised that there was a far simpler way: I now just write the detail for the Data Owner role and include words to indicate that a Data Owner may appoint one or more Data Stewards to assist them to undertake these responsibilities on a day to day basis. ![]() I ask Data Owners to appoint one or more Data Stewards to assist them in their responsibilities.įor many years, I wrote separate role descriptions, where I diligently listed everything that both the Data Owners and Data Stewards have to do. Now, you may be reading that thinking, “if they're that senior, do they really understand the detail of the dataand do they have time to do all the things listed?” That's a fair point and why I use the role of Data Stewards. If they don't have that authority and resources available, they won't make an effective Data Owner. They need to have the authority to make changes and also have either the budget or resources available to them to undertake data cleansing activities. To be suitable to be a Data Owner, they have to be suitably senior in your organisation. That sounds nice and simple, but covers activities such as making sure there are definitions in place, action is taken on data quality issues and Data Quality Reporting is in place. But for this article we will stick with the more common role titles.ĭata Owners are senior stakeholders within your organisation who are accountable for the quality of one or more data sets. If you've been following my blogs for any time, you will also know that they don't have to be called Data Owners (if you face resistance using this role title, you should call them an appropriate name that works for your organisation). Let's start with the more senior of the two: Data Owners. To understand the differences we should look at what each of these roles do. It is the last category, roles and responsibilities, which covers both Data Owners and Data Stewards ![]() The three things as you can see from the image are policy, processes, and roles and responsibilities and they form a key part of my methodology. But I do believe that there are three key things you have to include in your Data Governance framework for it to be successful: I believe quite strongly (and may have mentioned it once or twice before) that there is no such thing as a standard Data Governance framework. To clarify the situation - Data Ownership and Data Stewardship are important components of Data Governance (although not the only components). This could easily lead you to believe that there are two or even three separate data management disciplines being discussed. If you do some research online you will find many articles that discuss Data Ownership and Data Stewardship as well as Data Governance. This topic does cause a lot of confusion. What is the difference between Data Owners and Data Stewards? One question in particular, I have been asked many times over the years (in fact, I got an email asking the very same question while I was actually drafting this blog) is the topic of this blog: My last blog about how you identify your data owners stimulated a lot of interest, but also a lot of questions.
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