The Data Steward is a weekly publication for the people who actually do data governance — not the executives who strategize about it from a distance, but the practitioner in the room trying to make it work with the resources they actually have.
Most data governance content is written for the enterprise: the Fortune 500 with a forty-person team and a seven-figure platform. This isn't that. This is for the person building a program at a mid-market company — often alone, often under-resourced, often the first person their company ever gave this job to. If you've inherited a mess, been handed a vague mandate, and been expected to produce miracles by Friday, you're who this is for.
Every issue ships something you can use — a template, a framework, a checklist, a tool. Not a think-piece you skim and forget, but something you open on Monday and adapt to your situation.
Three things you can count on here:
It's practical. The goal is to help you do the work, not to sound smart about it.
It's independent. No vendor pays us. When a tool isn't worth it at your scale, we say so. When something's genuinely good, you can trust that too.
It's practitioner-to-practitioner. Written by someone who has done this job — anonymously, for now — for people doing it now. No consultant-speak.
Plain talk about a hard job.If that's the kind of thing that would make your week a little easier, subscribe. And if an issue helps, reply — the best material comes straight from what readers are actually stuck on.