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 INTRODUCTION TO DAMA

  • Defining data management and its critical importance.
  • Identifying the various disciplines within data management.
  • DAMA & the DMBoK 2.0, and its alignment with other frameworks (such as TOGAF/COBIT).
  • An overview of professional certifications, with a focus on the DAMA CDMP.

DATA GOVERNANCE

  • Understanding Data Governance, its importance, and a typical reference model.
  • Key data governance roles: owner, steward, and custodian.
  • The function of the Data Governance Office (DGO) and its relationship with the PMO.
  • Distinguishing between Data Governance and IT Governance, and understanding why it matters.
  • Overview of data management implications for selected regulations.
  • Essential steps organizations should take to prepare for compliance with current and future regulations.
  • Strategies for initiating, sustaining, and building effective data governance.

 DATA LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

  • Proactive planning for managing data across its entire lifecycle.
  • Distinguishing between the data lifecycle and the Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
  • Identifying data governance touch points throughout the data lifecycle.

 METADATA MANAGEMENT

  • Defining metadata and explaining its importance.
  • Types of metadata, their uses, and sources.
  • The connection between metadata and business glossaries.
  • How metadata serves as the essential link for data governance and metadata standards.

 DG MINI PROJECT

  • Launching the Data Governance Program: essential early elements and how to develop a realistic business case aligned with business objectives.

 DOCUMENT RECORDS & CONTENT MANAGEMENT

  • The importance of document and records management.
  • Differentiating between taxonomy and ontology.
  • Legal and regulatory considerations affecting records and content management.

 DATA MODELING BASICS

  • Types of data models, their usage, and interrelationships.
  • Developing and leveraging data models, spanning from enterprise-level and conceptual to logical, physical, and dimensional models.
  • Conducting maturity assessments to evaluate how models are utilized within the enterprise and integrated into the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  • Data modeling in the context of big data.
  • The critical role of data modeling in data governance, featuring a business case study.

 DATA QUALITY MANAGEMENT

  • Exploring the facets of data quality and clarifying why validity is often mistaken for quality.
  • The policies, procedures, metrics, technology, and resources required to ensure data quality.
  • A data quality reference model and its practical application.
  • The interconnection between data quality management and data governance, supported by case studies.

 DATA OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

  • Core roles and considerations for data operations.
  • Best practices for data operations.

 DATA RISK & SECURITY

  • Identifying threats and adopting defenses to prevent unauthorized access, use, or loss of data, particularly the abuse of personal data.
  • Identifying risks (beyond just security) to data and its usage.
  • Data management considerations for various regulations, such as GDPR and BCBS239.
  • The role of data governance in managing data security.

 MASTER & REFERENCE DATA MANAGEMENT

  • Distinguishing between reference data and master data.
  • Identifying and managing master data across the enterprise.
  • Four generic MDM architectures and their suitability for different scenarios.
  • Incremental implementation of MDM to align with business priorities.
  • Statoil (Equinor) case study.

DATA WAREHOUSING, BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE & DATA ANALYTICS

  • Defining data warehousing and business intelligence, and the necessity for both.
  • Major data warehouse architectures (Inmon & Kimball).
  • Introduction to dimensional data modeling.
  • Understanding why master data management fails without adequate data governance.
  • Data analytics, machine learning, and data visualization.

 DATA INTEGRATION & INTEROPERABILITY

  • Addressing the business and technology issues that data integration seeks to resolve.
  • Distinguishing between data integration and data interoperability.
  • Different styles of data integration and interoperability, their applicability, and implications.
  • Approaches and guidelines for providing data integration and access.
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