Key roles to support you

As a part of your delivery plan, for your first data domain, I recommend you spend the appropriate time aligning on roles and responsibilities between your team (the business of data), the technology team (the technology of data), and the business team (the data domain). This can be accomplished by working with the executive data domain leader’s team, the CIO (or their delegate), and your team. Working together to define what you are responsible for versus what the data domain is responsible for versus what the IT function is responsible for upfront will enable better teamwork as you get into delivery together.

You will also need to establish a strong relationship with your finance business partner to assist you in managing the appropriate budget for your program, as well as the talent team (sometimes referred to as HR or recruitment) as you build out your team, which I will describe in Chapter 3 in more detail. There are various other functions that...