Data governance is controlling the data and the rules that define control
On the very least this entails defining the following:
- What is the purpose of the data?
- Who (person of system) will use it?
- What does this data enable?
- Where did the data come from (manual entry, selection from control values, or data transfer)?
- Where data transfer is anticipated, what are the data clean-up requirements?
- Are there control values for this data? if not, why not?
- What is an acceptable entry?
- What is not an acceptable entry?
- What format standardization is possible for this data?
- Who enters data into this field?
- W needs to approve the data entry?
- When does this data get added and why is that timing important?
- Who is responsible, accountable, for this quality of this data?
- Who is authorized to change this data?
- How is the change done?
- Who will approve the change?
