Feb 16, 2026 — 15 min — Systems Notes
Data Governance Roles Need Decision Rights
A data governance operating model for assigning owners, stewards, custodians, and SMEs without leaving quality rules, access decisions, retention, source-of-truth choices, and incident closure ambiguous.
Outcome: Defined a role-and-cadence contract that lets governance teams assign decision rights, artifacts, escalation paths, and success measures before a data product is certified.