Tackling the NDMO Regulations - One deliverable at a time
NDMO Submission Deliverables
Author: Howard Diesel
Date: March 15, 2023
The National Data Management Office (NDMO) of Saudi Arabia published a complete set of Data Management standards to be adhered to by all government entities. Please find a copy of the standards here: Data Standards Document (anu.edu.au)
I am very impressed with the vision and approach to defining such a comprehensive set of Data Management standards. It is not just a Data Protection standard. There are 15 domains covering most of the knowledge areas in the DMBoK. Reporting entities must achieve Compliance in 3 years according to priorities P1, P2 and P3. November 2022 was the deadline for P1.
We faced several challenges in delivering all the P1 specifications. In the webinar, we provided several solutions to the challenges.
The core solution is to make sure that you break the specifications into tasks and, in some cases, sub-tasks. Breaking it down means that you can associate a DMBoK Deliverable with a work item at the lowest level.
Once you have done this, you can do the following for all domain specifications:
Allocate the deliverable to the appropriate level of resource.
Reuse specific deliverables that apply to multiple specifications. The use-case portfolio is an excellent example of this reuse.
Use a Data Management Maturity Assessment to monitor and control the specification deliveries.
We have provided resources to help you if you are interested.