Governance
19 posts filed under Governance.
Governance Before AI Act Fines
The provenance record behind an AI feature fits in a YAML file next to the pipeline code.
Read →Ownership Before Governance
A 20-page data governance policy with no named owners is a document nobody can enforce.
Read →Governance Added Late Fix
The data lake had 300 datasets and no owner list. The audit notice gave us 4 months.
Read →Your AI Initiative Is Blocked by Context, Not Tokens
The team bought more tokens. The agent still gave confident, wrong answers. The bottleneck was never compute.
Read →This company piloted Data Mesh with 2 domains in 6 months. Here's what worked (a
This company piloted Data Mesh with 2 domains in 6 months. Here's what worked (and what didn't).
Read →The Hybrid Governance Rollout: From Bottleneck to Balance in 12 Weeks
Every governance rebuild I've seen starts the same way: a team that over-corrected once, then over-corrected the other way, and is now tired …
Read →Data Governance - The Spectrum from Anarchy to Bureaucracy
Your data governance is either too loose to trust or too tight to ship.
Read →The Five Ideals Applied to Data Teams
Gene Kim wrote The Unicorn Project about a developer trapped in bureaucracy. Data engineers live that story every day.
Read →The Shadow IT Problem - When Fast Beats Right
Shadow IT doesn't start with rogue employees. It starts when the gap between 'I need this' and 'we can deliver this' gets too wide.
Read →Hybrid Governance Implementation
The 3-part governance model that actually gets adopted.
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