Who owns the data
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In this lesson
show why unclear data ownership causes the slowest, costliest problems at scale.
Planned topics
- Owner: the team accountable for a data set's meaning, quality, access, and lifecycle.
- Without an owner, copies drift, definitions fork, and nobody fixes errors.
- Ownership differs from storage: a platform may host data owned by a domain team.
- Operational data (serving the product) and analytical data (reporting, models) both need owners.
Draft outline details
Demonstration
a table of "customer address" copies in five systems, each with a different format and no owner, and the three incidents that came from the mismatch.
Check your understanding
Does hosting a data set make a team its owner?
Show answer
No; the owner is accountable for meaning, quality, and access.
Practice
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