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Data Governance
Crowdsource the Metadata (Stop Being the Bottleneck)
The Problem
Your team maintains a "data catalog." Except it's always wrong. The data engineer who built Table_X left 2 years ago and nobody knows what field_47b means. You have 500 tables and 3 people trying to document them. It's 18 months out of date. Users don't trust it. So they ask you directly, 50 times a week: "What's this field?" You're a human dictionary. Waste. And you can't scale—if documentation requires YOU, you'll never keep up with 500 tables growing to 5,000.
The Principle
Let users document what they know. Wikipedia works because millions contribute, not because one team writes everything. Same with your data. Crowdsource metadata: what tables mean, which fields matter...
Action Steps
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