From MIKE2 Methodology
The Data Governance and Management Consortium (DGMC) is the group being formulated to take ownership of the MIKE2.0 Methodology. The MIKE2.0 Leadership Team is part of the DGMC and is currently maintaining ownership of MIKE2.0. It is expected that a fully functioning DGMC will take over ownership of MIKE2.0 during the beta period that will last through Q2 2007.
Mission Statement
The Mission Statement of the Data Governance and Management Consortium is to elevate the status of data as an asset in our organisations through proper governance and management architectures, methodologies and implementation techniques. Our community will work together in a collaborative, open and honest fashion.
Guiding Principles
Key principles for how our group will operate are as follows:
- Aim to increase the profile of Data Management as a competency, encouraging the use of an Information Development approach
- Encourage active contribution within the MIKE2.0 Framework of a collaborative community of Data Management professionals
- Publically discuss issues with the Core MIKE2.0 Methodology, with changes to be reflected in the overall framework as appropriate
- Focus on usability by making it simple for users to implement solutions with MIKE2.0
- Allow for integration with other methods by making it easier for practitioners to incorporate MIKE2.0 it other approaches
- Facilitate a commercial approach from technology vendors and systems integrators to directly map into their offerings
- Actively market our approach to build awareness and openly seek evangelists for the MIKE2.0 approach
Becoming a Member
The best way to become of member of the Data Governance and Management Consortium is to become an active contributor to the MIKE2.0 Methodology. The DGMC will employ a model based on meritocracy to determine the roles where Contributors could best help within the Consortium. The MIKE2.0 Leadership Team will be working to develop this model during the period of the Beta Release of MIKE2.0. Discussions on this article's Talk Page will help provide input into the proposed approach.
We will be working to select a number of other representatives for the Consortium, working from a starter set of members that was established at Informatica World 2006.
Philosophy on Contribution
You don't need to be an expert in enterprise Information Management to contribute to MIKE2.0. Content in MIKE2.0 goes through a Peer Review process and users will be able to see if your content is in the early stages. What you should expect is that your content will be edited by other users of the methodology; in some cases you may not consider these edits to be an improvement.
Having different types of contributors will be important to MIKE2.0. That means that we need points of view from business users, testers, domain experts and senior management. It is the differing perspectives that will help make the MIKE2.0 methodology better over time.
Meritocracy
We consider the meritocracy-based approach followed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to be an excellent model to building the MIKE2.0 Methodology. Our aim is to have the Data Governance and Management Consortium operate in a similar fashion.
As has happened with the ASF, we hope that this model will scale well and without creating significant issues. We also believe there is no conservative resource at stake (money, energy, time) to building a new approach to Information Development and that there is plenty of work to go around! Like the ASF, selection of DGMC team members s will also be based on finding people that we believe are committed enough for the task and can work well with others, especially in disagreement.
Roles and Responsibilities
In terms of roles, we once again believe the ASF provides an excellent starting point. We are in the early stages of defining the Data Governance and Management Consortium Roles and Responsibilities and we will actively recruit members based on their contributions to MIKE2.0.
Although we are in the very early stages of forming the Consortium our belief is that it is better to get content out in front of a user community sooner rather than wait until our organisation structure is more fully formulated.
Actions
Key actions related to the Data Governance and Management Consortium are as follows:
- Gather feedback on proposed Roles, Responsibilities and Meritocracy Model
- Begin collaborating and look for opportunities to improve communications
- Formulate guidelines on how we will bring on new members to the team
- Address priority issues identified as part of the baseline release
- Set a timeline for next release
- Gather priority requirements for next release of MIKE2.0
Feedback on these actions should be discussed on this article's talk page
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