ETL

Data → Data Engineering

Data Governance

The decision rights, policies, accountabilities, and controls used to manage data quality, access, privacy, ownership, and lifecycle.

Data Governance

The decision rights, policies, accountabilities, and controls used to manage data quality, access, privacy, ownership, and lifecycle.

Motivation

Data Governance helps teams make explicit decisions, communicate intent, and coordinate work across technical and business boundaries.

Where it fits

Data Governance belongs to the Data track and the Data Engineering layer.

Mental model

Treat Data Governance as a structured way to connect goals, constraints, decisions, and implementation consequences.

Common mistakes

Treating it as a title or document rather than an ongoing engineering practice.
Applying a single template without adapting it to the organization and system context.

Requires: Data Quality
Relates: Data Lineage
Relates: Access Control