DAMA DATA PROJECT SKILLSDOCUMENTATION · RELEASE 1.1.0

KNOWLEDGE LIBRARY V1.1.0

Data Quality Improvement Pack

Skill: improving-data-quality

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Record details

ID Field Project value
artifact_id Artifact ID
project Project
skill Skill
version Version
date Date
status Status
author Author
owner Owner
approver Approver
purpose Purpose
business_outcome Business outcome
scope Scope and exclusions
source_inputs Inputs and sources
assumptions Assumptions and constraints
decisions Decisions
rationale Rationale
risks Risks
exceptions Exceptions
open_items Open items
due_date Due date
acceptance_criteria Acceptance criteria
evidence_location Evidence location
reviewer_decision Reviewer decision
next_gate Next stage gate

Domain analysis and decisions

Purpose and critical data (purpose)

Identify consumers, critical elements, error consequences, and acceptable risk.

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Dimensions and versioned rules (rules)

Fix population, denominator, exceptions, threshold, measurement point, approval, and effective date per rule.

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Profiling and baseline (baseline)

Record sampling windows and defect rates for stock, flow, source, and consumption points.

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Business impact and priority (impact)

Link defect samples to loss, decision risk, and remediation benefit.

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Root cause and recurrence test (root_cause)

Test root-cause hypotheses with process, interface, or source evidence.

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Prevention detection and correction (prevention)

Prevent at creation, detect in flow, and audit historical repair.

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Issue closure and scorecard (scorecard)

Set SLA, trends, exception expiry, retesting, and business benefit.

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Gates and acceptance (acceptance_evidence)

Verify root-cause control, recurrence trend, and residual exceptions with evidence.

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Working registers

Quality Rules (rules)

Maintain testable quality rules and approved thresholds.

Rule (rule) Definition (definition) Denominator (denominator) Threshold (threshold) Owner (owner) Version (version) Evidence (evidence)

Quality Issues (issues)

Track baselines, root causes, corrections, and closure evidence.

Rule (rule) Baseline (baseline) Impact (impact) Control (control) Owner (owner) Status (status) Evidence (evidence) Review date (review_date)