CDOT Performance Data Business Plan - Cambridge Systematics

CDOT Performance Data Business Plan
To review and prioritize all new data collection/management efforts within
CDOT.
The charter may also need to clarify the need for data management/governance.
This could be accomplished with a more thorough application of the Data
Management Maturity Model defined in Section 4.2.
This task could be accomplished by the newly formed Data Governance
Oversight Committee. It should take the Committee no more than two meetings
to accomplish this in month 2.
Priority 3 – Complete a Data Inventory/Assessment
A data inventory assessment has been completed as part of this project for the
data to support the recommended measures. It is described in Section 3.7. The
tasks include the identification of:
All priority data sets to support key department business – Key business
needs include performance reporting and asset management.
Data owners, stewards, stakeholders, community of interest, working groups
etc. and roles/responsibilities for all.
A data catalog detailing all data programs, sources, business owners,
requestors of data, data definitions, data standards, metadata standards,
format, data models, and identification of IT and business subject matter
experts who may be contacted regarding information about the data
programs and instructions for accessing data standards and definitions used
with each data program. The catalog should be updated regularly (every two
to three years). A data catalog was created for the nine recommended core
performance measures. It is documented in Section 3.7.
Develop a business terminology dictionary to align the use of business terms
commonly used throughout an organization. This is particularly helpful to
staff such as IT professionals who are often responsible for developing
applications to meet business needs.
A business case for every critical data program.
This task could be accomplished methodically through the following steps:
Step 1 – Identify the business objectives of the agency (CDOT and business
units).
Step 2 – Identify the business functions or services of the agency that support the
business objectives.
Step 3 – Identify which business functions are supported by which data
programs.
Step 4 – Establish policies, standards, and procedures, which mandate how data
is to be collected and used within the agency.
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