Training

DCAM Data Governance

Program

DCAM is a Data Management & Governance Framework that defines the capabilities an organisation needs, in order to create and sustain a mature data management and analytics discipline. The framework provides the guideline on how to go about doing this and covers areas such as building a Data Management Business Case, Data Governance, Data Quality,Controls, Architecture, Analytics, Ethics and Regulatory Compliance.

What’s involved?

Like many things in Data Management, there is not a ‘one size fits all’ approach to successfully carrying out a DCAM Capability Assessment. We need to consider the size, complexity and the capability of your organisation. These factors along with your overall goals will help us to plan an engagement that will give you a reliable capability baseline and support an increased awareness and understanding of Data Management in your organisation. The following table lists some of the key considerations that impact the assessment scope and the effort required from us and the participants to complete the assessment.

There are 3 methods through which we can facilitate the assessment:

• Interview: We meet with each participant and complete the assessment in an interview style.
• Workshop: The participants or a subset of participants come together and complete the assessment scores as a group in a facilitated workshop. We run the sessions
• and are on hand to facilitate the workshop, guide the discussion and answer any questions.

Self-Completed:

Assessment templates are distributed to participants who fill in their scores and return them so that they can be consolidated. This method is suitable when you are carrying out subsequent regular assessments and the candidates have already been through a prior assessment process. We don’t recommend this for an initial assessment at an organisation and don’t run initial assessments in with this method.

Kick off and DCAM Training

The initial session(s) will kick-off your assessment by introducing participants to the purpose of the assessment, the principals of data management and the DCAM Framework. This will include an introduction to the DCAM scoring model and guidelines for candidates on how to participate and answer the assessment questions

Participant knowledge

For your organisation to get the best overall experience and value; its important that participants have a good understanding of Data Management and are familiar with the DCAM Framework and terminology. This is necessary to ensure candidates understand the individual assessment questions and how they come together in the overall framework. The level of existing Data Management and DCAM knowledge will determine the amount of training and knowledge transition that is needed as a pre-requisite to the Assessment Execution.