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Best Practice for Master Data Management and Reference Data
A Step-by-Step Approach1.0 Identify Business Champions These will be vital to your success. | 1.2 Running a High-Profile Service or Division |
| 1.3 Having Established a Successful Track-Record You need Champions who people respect |
2.0 Decide the Approach Top-Down, Bottom-Up
Ref Data Product Catalogue, CMI, etc.. | 2.1 Top-Down and/or Bottom-Up |
| 2.2 POC or Feasibility Study Choose either a Proof-of-Concept or a paper Feasibility Study.
You could hold Design Reviews |
| 2.3 Management Involvement You must get buy-in at the 'working level' from key managers.
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| 2.4 Decide your Success Criteria You must establish how your success will be measured, preferably on a regular basis and not right at the end. |
| 2.5 Define the Enterprise Data PlatformFor example, start with this one from DatabaseAnswers. |
3.0 Determine the Standards These can be Internal, External, National or International | 3.1 Easy where defined eg LGSL/IPSV, BVPIs |
| 3.2 Look for obvious Data Leaders eg Social Services for Ethnic Origins |
| 3.3 Create a Glossary for Data Mapping You need a Glossary from early on.
It provides a structure, signs of progress and helps people feel involved. |
| 3.4 Aim for Buy-In It's difficult but very important to get buy-in early on.
Remember this is a business Project, not a technical one. |
4.0 Perform a Data Quality Audit Design the Infrastructure
Choose Software Tools
Establish the Governance | 4.1 Sell the Importance Especially to management |
| 4.2 Prepare a Business Case Boring but essential.
You must look at your Project thru the eyes of the Sponsors. |
| 4.3 Carry out Enterprise-wide DQ Audit Tools and Techniques are Enterprise-wide |
| 4.4 Data Profiles suggest Standards A simple example is an analysis of Genders.
We might expect to get many examples of M/F and a few 0/1's so we would choose M/F. |
| 4.5 Obtain Buy-In from Data Stewards It's good to find people who will take ownership of different kinds of data.
They then feel committed to making things work.
This reduces your workload and increases your chances of success.
If you don't get buy-in, your job is going to be very difficult.
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5.0 Define the Scope This is where we establish the 'Things of Interest' that are in Scope. | 5.1 Reference Data For example, Payment Methods. |
| 5.5 Customers Probably the single most important 'Thing of Interest'.
This Web Site offers about 25 to choose from.
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| 5.5.1 Commercial and Personal CustomersThis Model uses Inheritance to represent the differences between Commercial and Personal Customers. |
| 5.5.2 Customers and Products
This Model is a simple starting-point and the first step would be to remove Products. |
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