Working methods for real data projects

Turn data-project complexity into a clear path forward.

A suite of 17 skills shaped around DAMA-DMBOK and organized for real project work. Start with the problem, then compose only the expertise you need.

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Make the path visible—from source to decision to delivery

01 / THE METHOD

Not a giant checklist.
A path you can tailor.

The router profiles the project, selects primary and supporting domains, and sequences dependencies. Specialist skills then provide methods, work products, and acceptance evidence. Reviewing a domain does not mean implementing everything.

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01

Profile the work

Goals, risks, constraints, and readiness

02

Select and sequence

Tailor primary, foundational, and risk domains

03

Deliver verifiable outcomes

Owners, stage gates, and acceptance evidence

02 / SKILL LIBRARY

Find the expertise
your project needs now.

Browse project orchestration, management foundations, and delivery operations. Each skill explains when to use it, what it produces, and includes a prompt you can adapt.

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START HERE: SEE THE WHOLE

Project orchestration

Start here when scope, ownership, or adoption is still unclear.

04 SKILLS
01ROUTER

Managing Data Projects

WHEN TO USE

An initiative spans several data-management domains, or the right skills and delivery order are unclear.

WHAT IT PRODUCES

Domain route, tailoring rationale, dependency order, stage gates, and an integrated delivery plan.

ADAPTABLE PROMPT

Use $managing-data-projects to create a 12-week roadmap for a customer data platform. Explain scope choices across governance, quality, metadata, security, operations, and change, with evidence for each stage gate.

Deliverable template
02ASSESS

Assessing Data-Management Maturity

WHEN TO USE

An organization needs an evidence-based current/target capability assessment, gap analysis, and priorities.

WHAT IT PRODUCES

Assessment scope and rubric, evidence-strength rules, current/target matrix, uncertainty statements, and reassessment cadence.

ADAPTABLE PROMPT

Use $assessing-data-management-maturity to assess governance, quality, and metadata across three business units. State sampling and evidence strength; do not claim a verified enterprise-wide score without operational evidence.

Deliverable template
03OPERATING MODEL

Organizing Data Management

WHEN TO USE

Designing central/local responsibilities, roles, committees, shared services, RACI, funding, or coordination.

WHAT IT PRODUCES

Operating-model comparison, role charters, activity-level RACI, resource gaps, and a pilot roadmap.

ADAPTABLE PROMPT

Use $organizing-data-management to compare centralized and federated data offices for a multi-region company. Define roles, decision interfaces, RACI, staffing capacity, and pilot gates.

Deliverable template
04ADOPTION

Leading Data Change

WHEN TO USE

A new catalog, process, or standard is underused, bypassed, or not sustained.

WHAT IT PRODUCES

Target behaviors, readiness, communications and training, obstacle log, quick wins, and an adoption funnel.

ADAPTABLE PROMPT

Use $leading-data-change to improve a catalog's 12% active-use rate three months after launch. Address manager participation, hands-on support, feedback closure, and sustained-use measures.

Deliverable template
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MAKE DATA TRUSTWORTHY

Management foundations

Clarify decisions, structure, quality, accountability, and data-use boundaries.

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05IMPACT & TRUST

Handling Data Ethically

WHEN TO USE

Collection, sharing, profiling, AI, or secondary use may affect people, fairness, autonomy, or trust.

WHAT IT PRODUCES

Purpose and alternatives, affected parties, benefit/harm assessment, use boundaries, recourse, and stop conditions.

ADAPTABLE PROMPT

Use $handling-data-ethically to assess using customer-behavior data for personalized pricing. Identify affected groups, less intrusive alternatives, fairness risks, and evidence needed before deciding.

Deliverable template
06DECISION RIGHTS

Establishing Data Governance

WHEN TO USE

Teams disagree on definitions, ownership, standards, or exceptions and need authority and escalation.

WHAT IT PRODUCES

Governance charter, decision rights and stewardship, policy hierarchy, issue/exception workflow, and scorecard.

ADAPTABLE PROMPT

Use $establishing-data-governance to resolve conflicting definitions of “customer” across three business units. Define the final approver, term-change process, escalation path, and oversight measures.

Deliverable template
07SYSTEM BLUEPRINT

Designing Data Architecture

WHEN TO USE

An enterprise, domain, or platform needs current, target, and transition architecture—not merely a table design.

WHAT IT PRODUCES

Architecture principles and views, blueprints, trade-offs, dependency roadmap, and conformance evidence.

ADAPTABLE PROMPT

Use $designing-data-architecture to plan a target architecture for CRM, POS, and e-commerce data. Compare transition options, responsibilities, flows, and evidence for phased migration.

Deliverable template
08STRUCTURE & MEANING

Modeling Data

WHEN TO USE

Business requirements must become conceptual, logical, or physical models with explicit entities, grain, keys, and rules.

WHAT IT PRODUCES

Models and definitions, conceptual-to-physical traceability, reviews, versions, and controlled changes.

ADAPTABLE PROMPT

Use $modeling-data to design a logical model for orders, refunds, and customers. Specify order-line grain, keys, historical states, and questions requiring business confirmation.

Deliverable template
09CONTROLS & PROTECTION

Securing Data

WHEN TO USE

Data needs classification, access control, masking/encryption, export limits, auditability, and control tests.

WHAT IT PRODUCES

Classification, subject-by-data-by-action access matrix, negative tests, exceptions, and residual-risk evidence.

ADAPTABLE PROMPT

Use $securing-data to design least-privilege and masking for a cloud platform with customer contact data. Specify denied access, revocation tests, and audit evidence.

Deliverable template
10UNSTRUCTURED CONTENT

Managing Documents and Content

WHEN TO USE

Contracts, email, records, or media need lifecycle governance for classification, search, retention, and disposition.

WHAT IT PRODUCES

Content inventory and taxonomy, lifecycle/access rules, hold/disposition workflows, search, and audit evidence.

ADAPTABLE PROMPT

Use $managing-documents-and-content to govern customer contracts and email across repositories. Design classification, versions, search, retention, and legal-hold interfaces; flag decisions for counsel.

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11SHARED ENTITIES

Managing Reference and Master Data

WHEN TO USE

Shared entity identities or controlled code sets conflict across systems and need authority and distribution.

WHAT IT PRODUCES

Authority/consumer matrix, global IDs, survivorship, match/merge/split tests, code versions, and stewardship.

ADAPTABLE PROMPT

Use $managing-reference-and-master-data to address duplicate customers across three CRMs. Define false-merge safeguards, reversible splits, golden-record rules, code versions, and consumer acknowledgments.

Deliverable template
12DISCOVERY & LINEAGE

Managing Metadata

WHEN TO USE

Assets, terms, fields, ownership, operational status, or lineage must be discoverable and maintained.

WHAT IT PRODUCES

Minimum metadata product, catalog/glossary, run lineage, impact analysis, and coverage/freshness measures.

ADAPTABLE PROMPT

Use $managing-metadata to build a searchable catalog and field-level lineage for three critical reports. Trace each report to its source run and test the impact of a changed source field.

Deliverable template
13FITNESS & DEFECTS

Improving Data Quality

WHEN TO USE

Defects recur and the business needs fit-for-purpose rules, root-cause analysis, prevention, and monitoring.

WHAT IT PRODUCES

Versioned quality rules, baselines, business priorities, root-cause remediation, issue closure, and scorecards.

ADAPTABLE PROMPT

Use $improving-data-quality to address customer addresses that become invalid again after cleanup. Separate existing-record repair from prevention and define delivery-specific rules and recurrence measures.

Deliverable template
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PUT CAPABILITIES TO WORK

Delivery and operations

Move, persist, analyze, or model data—and keep verifying it in production.

04 SKILLS
14CROSS-SYSTEM FLOWS

Integrating Data

WHEN TO USE

Data must move or interoperate between systems through batch, CDC, streams, APIs, or sharing.

WHAT IT PRODUCES

Pattern decisions, interface contracts, mappings, replay and reconciliation design, lineage, and SLAs.

ADAPTABLE PROMPT

Use $integrating-data to design a customer-change CDC pipeline from CRM to billing. Cover out-of-order and duplicate events, idempotent replay, schema changes, and business reconciliation.

Deliverable template
15PRODUCTION READINESS

Operating Data Storage

WHEN TO USE

A database, lakehouse, or file store needs production readiness, capacity, recovery, change control, or handoff.

WHAT IT PRODUCES

Service targets, capacity/cost, RTO/RPO, recovery drills, monitoring, runbooks, and Go/No-Go evidence.

ADAPTABLE PROMPT

Use $operating-data-storage to assess a new analytical database before production. Define recovery drills, capacity/performance tests, on-call handoff, and release blockers.

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16DECISION SUPPORT

Delivering Data Warehousing and BI

WHEN TO USE

Delivering a warehouse, mart, metric, report, or dashboard with definition, history, or acceptance needs.

WHAT IT PRODUCES

Decision-to-metric traceability, metric contracts, fact grain, conformed dimensions, reconciliation, and adoption evidence.

ADAPTABLE PROMPT

Use $delivering-data-warehousing-and-bi to deliver an executive sales dashboard. Resolve revenue and refund attribution before defining certified metrics, year-over-year history, and acceptance tests.

Deliverable template
17MODELING & EXPERIMENTS

Delivering Data Science

WHEN TO USE

Testing a data hypothesis or building/deploying a statistical or machine-learning model with production controls.

WHAT IT PRODUCES

Hypotheses, data/feature cards, independent validation, model cards, rollout gates, drift monitoring, and rollback criteria.

ADAPTABLE PROMPT

Use $delivering-data-science to design a customer-risk model launch. Fix prediction time, temporal split, and independent test; define group errors, human fallback, and stop conditions.

Deliverable template

03 / GET STARTED

Bring the methods
to your next project.

Download the package and copy complete skill folders into your project's .agents/skills/. For cross-domain work, install the router and relevant domain skills; focused work can use one skill.

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DMBOK is source material, not instructions to the agent. This suite is not an official DAMA form, legal advice, or certification standard. Project facts, law, thresholds, and authority still require confirmation by accountable owners.