10 Tips to Enable Data Discovery and Governance in Your Organization

Discover ten essential tips for enabling effective data discovery and governance in your organization in this 30-minute conference talk from Current 2023. Learn how to navigate the challenges of scaling data platforms and systems while maintaining data quality and accessibility. Explore strategies such as adopting a common data language, leveraging data contracts, and implementing best practices for metadata management. Gain insights on balancing logical and physical data representations, crowdsourcing metadata ingestion, assigning data ownership, and meeting data consumers' needs. Apply these practical tips to enhance your organization's data management capabilities and streamline stakeholder access to critical information.

- Intro
- Overview of data tools and problem statement
- Conway’s Law
- Tip 1: Bring everybody to the same “water cooler”
- Tip 2: Choose a data language
- Tip 3: Use schema for more than schema
- Tip 4: Keep the logical and the physical together
- Tip 5: Keep the logical and the physical separate
- Tip 6: Crowdsource metadata ingestion
- Tip 7: Everything must have an owner
- Tip 8: Meet data consumers where they are
- Tip 9: Shift left
- Tip 10: Embrace data contracts
- Conclusion