ICCP DGSP study plan
ICCP DGSP · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Data Governance & Stewardship
Define data governance and data stewardship precisely, and articulate how they differ from data management, data quality, and IT operations, in your own written words.
Map the governance operating model: executive sponsor, data governance council or steering committee, data owners, data stewards, and the data office, listing the decision rights each holds.
Draft a one-page RACI that assigns accountability for policy approval, standards definition, issue escalation, and data quality remediation.
Inventory the governance frameworks and standards you will study (for example DAMA-DMBOK functional areas, DCAM components, and ISO/IEC 38505 concepts) and note which one you will use as your organizing spine.
Your checkpoint
A two-page governance operating model summary containing a role chart, a decision-rights table, and a one-paragraph definition of each core term.
Data Governance & Stewardship
Write a data policy from scratch covering purpose, scope, roles, classification, access, retention, and non-compliance consequences.
Classify a sample dataset against a four-tier classification scheme and justify each label with a written rationale.
Distinguish personal data, sensitive personal data, regulated data, and confidential business data, and state which controls attach to each.
Build a policy-to-control traceability table linking at least five policy statements to specific enforceable controls.
Your checkpoint
A complete draft data policy document plus a classification decision log for ten sample data elements.
Data Governance & Stewardship
Design a data stewardship model that specifies steward responsibilities, time allocation, escalation paths, and performance expectations.
Create a stewardship onboarding checklist a new steward could follow in their first thirty days.
Define the intake and triage process for data issues: how issues are logged, prioritized, assigned, and closed.
Practice writing three issue tickets at different severity levels and specify the escalation trigger for each.
Your checkpoint
A stewardship handbook section including role description, onboarding checklist, and a documented issue-triage workflow with three worked examples.
Data Governance & Stewardship
Assemble a metadata and data catalog plan: what business, technical, and operational metadata to capture and who owns each type.
Define business glossary governance: who proposes terms, who approves them, and how conflicts between definitions are resolved.
Trace data lineage for one end-to-end business report from source system to consumption, documenting each transformation.
Specify the metrics a governance program should report monthly to leadership.
Your checkpoint
A glossary governance procedure plus a lineage diagram and narrative for one report, and a one-page governance KPI dashboard specification.
Data Governance & Stewardship
Design a data quality operating model: define dimensions, assign ownership per dimension, and set remediation accountability.
Write five data quality rules with thresholds and specify the alerting behavior when each is breached.
Construct a data quality scorecard for a critical data element and explain how the score is calculated.
Map the relationship between data quality issues and root-cause categories such as process, system, and human entry.
Your checkpoint
A data quality rulebook containing at least five rules, their thresholds, owners, and a sample scorecard for one critical data element.
Data Governance & Stewardship
Outline a privacy and regulatory compliance program covering lawful basis, consent, data subject rights, retention, and cross-border transfer considerations.
Identify the governance obligations that common regimes impose on stewards (for example GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA, and financial-services recordkeeping rules) and note where obligations overlap.
Draft a data retention and disposal schedule for three data domains with defensible rationale.
Design an access review cadence and the evidence a steward must retain to demonstrate compliance.
Your checkpoint
A compliance obligations matrix mapping at least four regulatory themes to governance controls, owners, and evidence artifacts.
Data Governance & Stewardship
Build a business case for a governance initiative that quantifies risk reduction and names the stakeholders who must approve it.
Design a change management and communications plan for rolling governance out to three stakeholder groups.
Define a maturity assessment approach and score your own organization or a realistic scenario across five maturity levels.
Prepare a governance program roadmap spanning twelve months with sequenced workstreams and dependencies.
Your checkpoint
A governance program charter plus a twelve-month roadmap and a completed maturity self-assessment with justified scores.
Data Governance & Stewardship
Consolidate all prior deliverables into a single reference binder organized by governance function.
Self-test on role distinctions, policy content, stewardship escalation, metadata ownership, data quality dimensions, and regulatory obligations, and log every missed item.
Re-study only the logged weak areas and rewrite the corresponding deliverable section to correct the gap.
Rehearse explaining governance decisions to a non-technical executive in under three minutes.
Your checkpoint
A consolidated governance reference binder with a weak-area remediation log showing each gap and the correction made.
Milestones
Week 2: You can explain the difference between a data owner and a data steward without notes, and your draft policy contains enforceable statements rather than aspirational language.
Week 4: You can trace one report end to end and name the owner of each metadata type; your glossary procedure resolves a definitional conflict in a worked example.
Week 6: You can state, for at least four regulatory themes, which control satisfies the obligation and what evidence proves it.
Week 8: All eight deliverables are complete, the remediation log is closed out, and you can defend each governance decision in your binder in under three minutes.