Executing Data Quality Projects
TEN STEPS to Quality Data
and Trusted Information
Download the following files to provide easy references to
important concepts and provide templates for jumpstarting
your information quality work.
Content Highlights:
  • Includes numerous templates, detailed examples, and practical advice for executing every step of
    The Ten Steps approach.
  • Allows for quick reference with an easy-to-use format highlighting key concepts and definitions,
    important checkpoints, communication activities, and best practices.
Danette McGilvray is
president and principal of
Granite Falls Consulting.
For more than ten years she
led information quality
initiatives at high tech
companies. In her roles as
practitioner, program and
project manager, and
internal consultant, she
gained firsthand experience
in implementing data
quality in projects. She saw
the benefits resulting from a
focus on information quality
in addition to the chal-
lenges and opportunities.
As principal consultant for
Granite Falls, she continues
to use her expertise to help
clients in many industries.
She recognized those ideas
common to all data and all
types and sizes of organi-
zations. This, along with her
previous experience, led
her to develop The Ten
Steps methodology—a
practical and flexible
approach that combines
concepts with realistic how-
to advice.
Learn more about
Danette McGilvray.
danette@gfalls.com
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Templates
All Excel Downloads
All PowerPoint Downloads
Individual Downloads
Template 3.1
Issue Capture Worksheet (.xls)
Template 3.2
Project Charter (.doc)
Template 3.3
Tracking Issues/Action Items
(.xls)
Template 3.4
Requirements Gathering (.xls)
Template 3.5
Detailed Data List (.xls)
Template 3.6
Data Mapping (.xls)
Template 3.7
Data Specifications Scope (.xls)
Template 3.8
Information Anecdote (.doc)
Template 3.8
Information Anecdote (.ppt)
Template 3.9
Direct Costs (.xls)
Template 3.10
Missed Revenue (.xls)
Template 3.11
Recommendations for Action
(xls)
Template 3.12
Metrics and RACI (.doc)
Template 3.12
Metrics and RACI (.xls)
Template 3.13
Communication Plan (.doc)
Template 3.13
Communication Plan (.ppt)
Template 3.13
Communication Plan (.xls)
Template 5.1
Info Life Cycle Table Approach
(.doc)
Template 5.1
Info Life Cycle Table Approach
(.xls)
Figure 5.1
Info Life Cycle Swim Lane (.ppt)
Figure 5.2
Common Flowchart Symbols
(.ppt)
Template 5.2
Tracking Results (.xls)
Table 5.2
Data to Be Captured (.doc)
Table 5.2
Data to Be Captured (.xls)
About the Book
In today’s world of instant global communication and trends that
turn on a dime, up-to-date and reliable information is essential to
effective competition.
Executing Data Quality Projects:  Ten Steps
to Quality Data and Trusted Information
, provides a systematic
approach for improving and creating data and information quality
within any organization. It explains a methodology that combines a
conceptual framework for understanding information quality with the
techniques, tools, and instructions for improving and creating
information quality.

Every company is different, yet the underlying approach to data
quality described in the book applies to all types of data, whether
finance, research, development, procurement, manufacturing, sales
and marketing, order management, human resources, and so on. It
applies to numerous types of organizations—businesses and
corporations of all sizes, educational institutions, government
agencies, and nonprofit and charitable organizations—because all
depend on information to succeed.
Additional Resources
Business Intelligence Network:
www.b-eye-network.com
DAMA - Data Management
Association:
www.dama.org
Data Strategy Journal:
www.datastrategyjournal.com
Information Management:
www.information-management.
com
Enterprise Information
Management Institute:
www.eiminstitute.org
IAIDQ - International
Association for Information and
Data Quality:
www.iaidq.com
TDAN - The Data Administration
Newsletter:  
www.tdan.com
The Data Governance Institute:
www.datagovernance.com
The Data Governance &
Stewardship Community of
Practice:
www.datastewardship.com
Conferences, Training, and
Education:
Wilshire Conferences:
www.wilshireconferences.com
IRM UK: www.irmuk.co.uk
DebTech International:
www.debtechint.com
TDWI - The Data Warehousing
Institute:  
www.tdwi.org
ADOBE READER
is available here...
The Quick References are
described in the book in
Chapter 2 Key Concepts and
are summarized in an
at-a-glance format in the
Appendix Quick References.
The templates provide a starting
point to create your own forms
and documents. See the book
for additional information to
help you use the templates such
as descriptions, examples, and
how and where to use them.
Additional resources provide
links to related information that
can support your data quality
goals and personal career
development.
"Danette's book takes a
pragmatic and practical
approach to achieving the
desired state of data
quality within an
organization. It is a
'must-read' for any
organization starting out
on the road to data
quality."
Susan Stewart
Goubeaux, Director,
Business Intelligence,
FHLBanks Office of
Finance
"Danette has taken what
has previously been
presented in the abstract
and made an excellent,
concrete guide toward
improving data quality."
John Ladley, President of
IMCue Solutions
What Others Say...
"This book is a "must-own"
for business and technical
data quality managers and
practitioners. Danette
clearly demonstrates
where her process will add
value to quality projects
that stand-alone or as the
backbone of a successful
data integration effort."
Robert S. Seiner, KIK
Consulting & Educational
Services, LLC, The Data
Administration Newsletter,
LLC
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