DQ-View: Designated Asker of Stupid Questions
Jim Harris in Data Quality, Videos tagged Communication, DQ-View, Philosophy Sunday, July 25, 2010 at 9:00PM Data Quality (DQ) View is an OCDQ regular segment. Each DQ-View is a brief video discussion of a data quality key concept.
Effective communication improves everyone’s understanding of data quality, establishes a tangible business context, and helps prioritize critical data issues. Therefore, as the first video in my new DQ-View segment, I want to discuss a critical role that far too often is missing from data quality initiatives—Designated Asker of Stupid Questions.
DQ-View: Designated Asker of Stupid Questions
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Reader Comments (2)
Well spoken Jim.
My favorite story is the fairytale “The Emperor’s new clothes” by Hans Christian Andersen.
In this tale an emperor hires two swindlers (aka consultants) who offer him the finest dress from the most beautiful cloth. This cloth, they tell him, is invisible to anyone who is either stupid or unfit for his position. In fact there is no cloth at all, but no one (but at the end a little child) dares to say.
The Data Quality discipline is tormented by belonging to both the business side and the technology side of practice. This means that we have to live with the buzzwords and the smartness coming from both the management consultants and the technology consultants and vendors – including myself.
So you really have to believe in a lot of things and terms said in order not to look stupid or unfit for your position.
A way to cope with this is to look behind all the fine terms and recognize that most things said and presented is just another way of expressing common sense.
Thanks for the great comment, Henrik.
Your feedback is always appreciated.
Kejserens nye Klæder is a fantastic short story by Hans Christian Andersen.
And Data Quality and Common Sense is a fantastic blog post by Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen.
Best Regards,
Jim