Owners and stewards
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In this lesson
define ownership and stewardship roles for a solution.
Planned topics
- Data owner: accountable business person who decides rules and access (for example the head of finance for revenue).
- Data steward: does the daily work, resolves quality issues, maintains definitions.
- Technical custodian: runs the platform that stores the data; not the owner.
- Each key data set needs one named owner and one steward, tied to its system of record.
Draft outline details
Demonstration
a table: data set, owner, steward, custodian. Example: product master, head of merchandising, catalog team lead, ERP team.
Check your understanding
Is the database administrator the data owner?
Show answer
No. They are the custodian; the owner is the accountable business role.
Practice
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