DAMA-DMBOK Guide: The DAMA Guide to the Data Management Body of Knowledge

Great product. As per expectations.

I must admit that I have only read through the material once since it arrived only a day or so ago. It is delivered as one 400 page pdf from which you can cut and paste and search for terms using the appopriate reader. I assume it will also work well on kindle or that ilk. Bravo to the authors for distributing it this way, it makes it a valuable resource for practitioners.On the positive side, given the elapsed time from inception to publication as you would expect the overall framework is solid. The scope is broad covering governance through architecture. modelling, BI etc etc. And a lot of effort has been made to ensure each section breaks down to the same level of detail and uses a consistent structure.The material that is presented is valid and of great value, but the material that is not presented or covered (that you would expect even at overview level) is a bit of a disappointment. For example, the Master and Reference Data section (which feels very light indeed) does not cover fundamentals such as mastering strategies, consolidation and harmonisation nor the thorny issues of local attributes. Instead, it has a paragraph or so on replication. Similarly, data migration (a pretty broad topic) gets a paragraph. The data governance section is better but lacked substance, it talks about needing to adopt a different approach for different organisations but doesn't give any clues about what those differences might be. Indeed, this failing is prevalent throughout the material.Given the document was written by experts in each discipline I would have expected more insight borne of practice. Sadly this was lacking. The description is quite clear that this is an overview resource -- and that is what you get.So in terms of value for money it is a bit overpriced. But it will go into my back pocket as a handy resource and in consulting terms, it is a steal.

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The quintessential reference for all data professionals, use it lots on a day to day basis.

No data professional should be without this book.

a needed book if doing any level of data management. Glad I bought it