Practical Data Migration

INTRODUCING DATA QUALITY RULES

Data Quality Rules are central to this method.

• They keep ownership firmly in the hands of the business (Golden Rule 1).

• They expose to the project the knowledge hidden in the business (Golden Rule 2).

• The process of deriving them gets the business to address the issue of the limitations of time and resources (Golden Rule 3).

• They form the contract between the business and the technicians as to what constitutes quality data and how to go about securing it (Golden Rule 4).

On a well-run data migration project you will spend far more time, effort and resource on Data Quality Rules than on any other activity.

So what are Data Quality Rules?

Data Quality Rules Data Quality Rules are a statement of the metrics that will ...