Category — Data Quality

Dylan Jones of DataQualityPro, in a recent post cited a job description for a Data Quality Director that cited 17 keys areas of responsibility across 4 functional areas.  The JD made no mention of of the enormous support team that would be required to help this leader, now matter how energetic he/she might be, complete these tasks.  Without this team, all that this leader would require, as Dylan commented, would be “Powers of Invincibility”.

The trouble with the current approach to data quality is that it calls for, either ever larger teams, or individuals with superhuman powers.  After all, what we are asking them to do is the equivalent of raising the Titanic! [Read more →]

In a recent blog post on data quality (rather the lack of it) Charles Burleigh asked the question, “Should we treat the cause or the symptom?”.

My response to Charles was:

“For as long as people in data quality continue to say “it is almost impossible to guarantee the quality of your data” it will remain so.

It was not until Quality Assurance came along and people started asking industry leaders the question, “Why do you spend time and money turning out products with some unknown number of defects and then spend more time and money trying to find them?”. Note: Finding these defects was given the paradoxical name of “Quality Control”!! [Read more →]