You’ve had a Data Maturity Assessment completed for your organization. Now you have a 60+ page PDF with 56 recommendations across 6 categories and 25 process areas to address in order to achieve your desired level of maturity. This amount of information can be overwhelming, so how do you get started?

This is a case study of how the data governance team at Farm Credit Services of America tackled the results of their CMMI Data Management Maturity assessment. You will learn:

• How we broke down the work into more manageable portions
• How we got buy-in to create a cross-functional team and start working on the improvements
• Our method for tackling the recommendations
• The lessons we learned
• Our planned next steps before scheduling another assessment later this year

Speaker: Marni Frandson 

Marni Frandson is a Data Steward with eight years of experience working in a variety of roles at Farm Credit Services of America, including Sales, Business Support, and Product Management. For the past 2 years, she has been using her knowledge of the business to help drive data enablement and data maturity initiatives as a member of a cross-functional data maturity team. Marni’s focus on teammate engagement has been critical in the successful execution of several data projects aligned to improvements in the data maturity of the Association.

Speaker: Renate Witt

Renate Witt has 12 years of experience working with data and analytics within IT, focusing on development, data analysis, and project management. For the past 2 years she has been a Data Engineer on the data management and governance team at Farm Credit Services of America. She is helping to foster data governance and data management practices as a cross-functional member of the data maturity project team.