Summary

This chapter has focused heavily on the difficult first weeks after the approval of a data quality initiative business case. In every data quality initiative I’ve been involved in, those early weeks have not been as productive as I had hoped.

Choosing your third-party partners (both for resources and tools) and hiring the right people in your team will define the success and failure of your initiative. This chapter has outlined what to look for in team members and will hopefully help you to get the right team in place.

We also discussed how to break down the initiative into manageable chunks and to ensure that most, if not all, of the workstreams progress at the right speed.

If the early weeks are successful, the initiative will be well set up to deliver a successful data discovery phase. That is the subject of Chapter 5.