March Chapter Meeting

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Data Quality Maturity: A Retrospective of Target’s Product Data Journey

Over the past decade, Target’s item data domain has evolved through multiple stages of data quality maturity. This presentation offers a retrospective of that journey, highlighting key wins, lessons learned, and the tools developed along the way. Attendees will gain practical insights into advancing data quality maturity within operational data environments, grounded in real-world experience. 

The session emphasizes that effective data quality and governance are fundamentally people-driven—requiring shared ownership, clear accountability, and strong alignment with day-to-day business operations. Looking back, we will also share what we learned and what we would approach differently if starting again today. 

Finally, the presentation explores how data governance is enabled through critical artifacts such as data catalogs, documentation, performance metrics, scorecards, dashboards, and business rule engines that support validation, monitoring, and the prevention of poor-quality data. 

Takeaways:

• Understanding the 4 critical phases of data quality maturity and the nessesity to revisit phases over time.  
• Shareing the importance of having a strong operational and fuctional structure of people to help the practice mature. 
• Learning about 3 important artifacts that organizations will need to be successful.  

Agenda:
• 11:45 AM – 12:05 PM | Chapter News & Community Updates
• 12:05 – 12:55 PM | Featured Speaker
• 12:55 – 1:00 AM | Closing Announcements

Hosted virtually via Zoom | Link Provided Day Before in Reminder Email
Open to members and guests — all are welcome!