{"id":4201,"date":"2020-04-01T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dgen.net\/0\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2020-04-10T00:19:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T00:19:31","slug":"data-governance-how-to-move-fast-and-not-break-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/2020\/04\/01\/data-governance-how-to-move-fast-and-not-break-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Data governance \u2014 how to move fast and *not* break things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;ve been receiving a lot of calls from people asking how they can use data to &#8216;help&#8217;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To help frame a potential response that isn&#8217;t just &#8216;we can build an app for that&#8217; (that&#8217;s very rarely the answer), I&#8217;ve been trying to encourage people to first look at user needs and prior work. In times of &#8217;emergency&#8217; there&#8217;s a rush for people to want to &#8216;do something&#8217;\u2014 let&#8217;s harness that energy on useful things rather than squander it on &#8216;solutionising&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here&#8217;s a provocation process to ask how we can try and focus on what matters; that can unlock rapid-response from a frontline delivery team who can focus on solutions. At the same time, let&#8217;s also avoid just breaking things in the process, and give the frontline team (and the rest of us) the confidence that there is a process following them that will tidy up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Questions to consider:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What problems are we really trying to solve \u2014 based on actual user needs?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How will data help these problems? (what data, what analysis, etc?)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who should act to convene and lead: a sector, public body, both?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When are solutions needed and what might be our MVP intervention? (this may not need any data)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What single-issue could act as an exemplar?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vQfWBpj6HqstFmx-MFqaf6dl0uDXRdkYcbBOLBwFLg2BBizTBqUCyHwMzfVI_lAV34ESOFaIKwR4x6g\/\">click to comment or edit<\/a>]\u00a0 (or quick-link to this slide\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/data-triage\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/data-triage<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vQfWBpj6HqstFmx-MFqaf6dl0uDXRdkYcbBOLBwFLg2BBizTBqUCyHwMzfVI_lAV34ESOFaIKwR4x6g\/embed?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=0\" width=\"960\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been receiving a lot of calls from people asking how they can use data to &#8216;help&#8217;.\u00a0 To help frame a potential response that isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,29,42,43,38,20,3,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-data","category-environment","category-finance","category-government","category-social-change","category-stuff","category-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Data-Emergency-\u2014-triage-_-governance.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfJFK3-15L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4210,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions\/4210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}