Learning Paths

Privacy, stewardship, analytics, delivery ≈ 2–3 days orientation GDPR Foundations Personal data, purpose, PII levels, data-subject rights and DPIA handoff — the operable foundation before pillars and compliance essentials. 3 steps Privacy, stewardship, platform ≈ 1–2 days orientation PII in 5 steps After GDPR Foundations: from classification and masking to DSDR — the shortest solid entry into personal data governance. 5 steps Analytics engineers, DQ owners ≈ 2–3 days practice DQ with dbt From tests and history to a cockpit — data quality as an operating discipline, not a one-off audit. 4 steps Platform, architecture, BI leads ≈ 1 week reading path Modernize the warehouse Modern data warehouse with grain, products, and governance — without greenfield romanticism. 4 steps Sponsors, sales, governance leads — thesis first ≈ 90 min–2 hours Binom Governance — the concept The thesis in 90 minutes: eight operable pillars, weight by size, one function card, one decision brief — before foundations or a stack deep dive. 3 steps Engineering, stewardship, delivery ≈ 2–3 days foundation Quality foundations DQ vs contract vs proof — when gates apply, before dbt ops and hygiene paths start. 3 steps Platform, architecture, stewardship ≈ 2–3 days foundation Metadata foundations Metadata ≠ catalog ≠ dashboard ≠ semantic — entry before the operating model and OpenMetadata depth. 3 steps BI, stewardship, product, consumers ≈ 2–3 days foundation Metrics foundations BI decisions, semantic store and shared model — before trusted-metrics ops and KPI intake. 3 steps Governance leads, CoE, consultants ≈ 3–5 days foundation Governance foundations Pillars, roles, and the hub as a workbench — before certificates and frameworks kick in. 8 steps Governance leads, privacy, CoE ≈ 2–3 days orientation Compliance essentials GDPR, EU digital regulations, and ISO for data-governance projects — summary, not legal advice. 4 steps Function, stewardship, practice ≈ half a day First decision in the function One Friday question, one product, owner or vacancy, export one page — then STOP. No harvest. 3 steps Finance, controlling, stewardship ≈ 2–3 days orientation Finance landscape Close, ledger vs management accounting, forecast handoff, internal controls, audit and segregation of duties — before KPIs and tools are debated. 3 steps HR, privacy, stewardship ≈ 2–3 days orientation HR landscape Workforce contracts, purpose binding, masking, DSDR and analytics allowlist — privacy and ownership for HR data. 3 steps Sales, channel ops, stewardship ≈ 1 week orientation Channel sales landscape Two-tier account grain, deal registration vs pipeline, rebate ≠ booking — on the sales hub, not under partner sharing. 2 steps Platform, catalog, stewardship ≈ 1 week operating model Metadata operating model From “what is metadata” to product ops — catalog, lineage, and automation as control levers. 5 steps Sales, revenue ops, stewardship ≈ 2–3 days orientation Sales landscape CRM fields with decision value, pipeline gates, forecast versioning, and closed-won handoff. 3 steps Marketing, privacy, analytics ≈ 2–3 days orientation Marketing landscape Consent and preferences, campaign products, attribution ownership, and marketing-to-sales handoff. 3 steps Banking, insurance, risk, compliance ≈ 2–3 days orientation Banking & insurance landscape Regulatory reporting, model risk, DORA ICT, incident evidence, outsourcing and data residency — authority before supervisory proof. 3 steps IT family: platform, engineering, security, workplace, operations ≈ 3–5 days orientation IT family landscapes Bundle path for the five IT child landscapes — pick the child card, then isolation, contract, grant, asset, or SLO. 2 steps IT platform, custodian, architect ≈ 2–3 days orientation Data platform landscape Custodian ≠ owner, runtime contract, isolation, inventory, and publish gate. 3 steps Data engineering, architect, steward ≈ 2–3 days orientation Data engineering landscape Contract before transform, DQ owner path, semantics handoff, and breaking change. 3 steps Hardware, asset ops, stewardship ≈ 2–3 days orientation Hardware landscape Serial grain, install-base, quote-to-delivery, warranty/RMA, and refresh — before a CMDB dump replaces the device list. 3 steps Governance leads, CoE, consultants ≈ 2–3 days intake Governance project intake Stack inventory, authority matrix, and gap register — before the pilot flow starts. 7 steps IT security, custodian, owner ≈ 2–3 days orientation IT security landscape Sponsor before grant, recert, secrets, and evidence pack. 3 steps Operations, stewardship, delivery ≈ 2–3 days orientation Operations landscape Exception lists, service levels and operational ownership — before KPI chaos and shadow ops. 3 steps Manufacturing, quality, stewardship ≈ 2–3 days orientation Manufacturing landscape Plant, OT/IT and quality data — ownership before control-data and KPI debates; OEM slice: vehicle data after SOP. 3 steps Workplace IT, HR neighbour ≈ 2–3 days orientation Workplace IT landscape Employee asset, MDM vs identity, CMDB grain, refresh/exit. 3 steps Healthcare, privacy, stewardship ≈ 2–3 days orientation Healthcare landscape Patient identity, purpose binding and sharing — privacy and authority first. 4 steps IT operations, service owner ≈ 2–3 days orientation IT operations landscape Tool SLO, change/incident evidence, service boundary, handoff to the platform. 3 steps Public sector, privacy, stewardship ≈ 2–3 days orientation Public sector landscape Registers, once-only and transparency — without purpose conflicts or records/analytics mix-ups. 3 steps Partner, legal, stewardship ≈ 2–3 days orientation Partner landscape Onboarding, scope drift and reviews — contracts before partner data scales. 3 steps Stewards, product owners, BI leads ≈ 2–4 days metric ops Trusted metrics KPI definition, owner, and change process — so numbers stop diverging across tools and meetings. 5 steps Governance leads, analytics engineering, BI ≈ 4 weeks pilot Governance delivery pilot Prioritize source, lock scope and KPIs, mart design and controls — through signoff. 6 steps Sales — enough to delegate, not to deliver the stack ≈ 2–4 hours Governance sales enablement Partial scope, trust claim, one function card, skim the delegation table, fill the customer guide — then stop. No trust claim, no Placement. No Cloudera deep dive, no intake marathon. 4 steps Practice leads, governance ≈ 1–2 days Governance delivery service Attach the SKU: Parts 6+7 in full, one landscape card. Intake or pilot only as a follow-on link — platform paths stay outside. 3 steps Field sales — conversation, objections, deal types after the stop ≈ 3–6 hours Field sales — selling governance Optional after enablement: conversation arc, objections, when which SKU. No Cloudera, no intake. Trust claim stays mandatory. 4 steps Sales after close — ping becomes handoff ≈ 1–2 hours Governance AfterSales Take the guide, fill the handoff pack, stop. No intake, no stack. Name, first review, kill or renewal. 3 steps Governance leads, CoE, consultants ≈ 3–5 days gap review Close the gaps The missing pieces as diagnosis — prioritize ownership, metadata, DQ, metrics, access, and lifecycle. 4 steps Retail, ESG, legal, M&A, insurance depth ≈ 3–5 days orientation Extended domain landscapes Retail/commerce, ESG, extended functions, M&A and insurance claims — domain landscapes without a dedicated single path. 3 steps Practice leads, domain owners — do not block follow-on work ≈ half a day Corridor for follow-on work Read the series, pick the project moment, fill freeze/leave-open, export the Join Pack — then STOP. Sales does not fill the pack. 4 steps software, product owner, research, steward ≈ 2–3 days orientation software/product landscape Experiment register, telemetry purpose, promotion, share, feature boundary. 3 steps Owners, stewards, HR, privacy — find the work without exposing the person ≈ half a day Find, do not expose Read the series, cut three layers, export the visibility contract — then STOP. Preference does not legalise analytics. 4 steps Partner, legal, privacy — permitted use per legal entity ≈ half a day Partner: use per company Read the series, name entity on feeds, write one local row and kill line. Group paper is a frame, not a grant. 3 steps Governance by function short function entry Governance by function Governance by function: entry, typical decisions, interfaces, and evidence. 2 steps Public bodies — the file is not the dashboard ≈ half a day The file is not the dashboard Name four objects, refuse one warehouse decision, split Vorgang-ID from the stats grain. 3 steps Governance leads, CoE, platform ≈ 1 week operations Governance operations Exceptions, recertification, evidence, and lifecycle — operating after the pilot. 3 steps Owners, stewards, BI — hold one metric ≈ half a day Hold one KPI Name the decision, fill a card with an owner, put calculation in the semantic layer. A formula is not a KPI. 3 steps Retail / commerce landscape short function entry Retail / commerce landscape Retail / commerce landscape: entry, typical decisions, interfaces, and evidence. 2 steps AI ops — eval gate before the next write tool ≈ half a day Test before the next agent tool Golden traces, block/waive/pass, retest on scope change. Eval is a release, not a workshop. 3 steps Finance and data engineering — ERP platform lift ≈ one day ERP on-prem to SaaS Lift the same ERP line: authority, identifier map, comparison pack, consumer cutover, sunset. On-prem and SaaS are not the same source. 5 steps ESG / sustainability landscape short function entry ESG / sustainability landscape ESG / sustainability landscape: entry, typical decisions, interfaces, and evidence. 2 steps Legal / compliance landscape short function entry Legal / compliance landscape Legal / compliance landscape: entry, typical decisions, interfaces, and evidence. 2 steps Risk landscape short function entry Risk landscape Risk landscape: entry, typical decisions, interfaces, and evidence. 2 steps Architects, platform, governance ≈ 2–3 days orientation AI foundations Basics, risks, and governance for AI — before RAG and agents meet unmanaged metadata. 8 steps Customer service landscape short function entry Customer service landscape Customer service landscape: entry, typical decisions, interfaces, and evidence. 2 steps Data Owner short role entry Data Owner entry Short entry into Data Owner: mandate, boundaries, collaboration, and next foundations. 2 steps Data Steward short role entry Data Steward entry Short entry into Data Steward: mandate, boundaries, collaboration, and next foundations. 2 steps Procurement landscape short function entry Procurement landscape Procurement landscape: entry, typical decisions, interfaces, and evidence. 2 steps Data Product Owner short role entry Data Product Owner entry Short entry into Data Product Owner: mandate, boundaries, collaboration, and next foundations. 2 steps Data Architect short role entry Data Architect entry Short entry into Data Architect: mandate, boundaries, collaboration, and next foundations. 2 steps Data Custodian short role entry Data Custodian entry Short entry into Data Custodian: mandate, boundaries, collaboration, and next foundations. 2 steps Data Consumer short role entry Data Consumer entry Short entry into Data Consumer: mandate, boundaries, collaboration, and next foundations. 2 steps Architects, stewards, BI leads ≈ 2–3 days control data Control data ops Pull inline, Excel and entitlement matrices out of apps — placement, DIY stewardship, and hierarchies as products. 3 steps Architects, BI leads, platform ≈ 2–3 days redundancy Redundancy ops Outsource duplicated meaning from tools — inventory, patterns, dual-run, and scorecard. 3 steps Privacy, stewardship, platform ≈ 2–4 days access ops Access & security ops Access rules, masking, and policy operations — so security does not live only in slides and tickets. 3 steps Privacy, stewardship, platform ≈ 2–3 days deletion ops Deletion ops Deletion that sticks — scope, strategy, platform path, backups, and evidence including restore recurrence. 3 steps Architects, stewards, platform ≈ 2–3 days data hygiene Data hygiene ops Inventory, score, retire orphans, zombies and shadow assets — and prevent them with gates. 3 steps Governance leads, architects, stewards ≈ 1–2 days SSOT bridge Authoritative truth (SSOT bridge) SSOT as decision purpose, not a slogan — bridging control data, redundancy, products, and hygiene. 3 steps AI / ML, architects, stewards ≈ 2–3 days AI prep bridge Data junk before AI Bridge hygiene and deletion to AI prep: clean corpora, set fitness gates, stop PII, and remediate incidents — including machine unlearning. 3 steps Privacy, stewardship, collaboration/IT, AI ≈ 2–3 days content→AI bridge Mail & documents before AI Enterprise content as an estate: classification and hold, purpose binding, attachments, deletion across the index, and evidence — before mail and docs feed AI. 3 steps AI / ML, architects, stewards, risk ≈ 2–3 days sanctioned AI ops Sanctioned AI ops Close shadow AI; run Act ops, cards, synthetic/poisoning gates, RAG eval, agent HITL, and cost/lineage scorecard. 4 steps AI / ML, architects, stewards, HR/people ≈ 2–3 days workplace AI Workplace AI governance AUP and path rules, literacy, GenAI vendor gates, Copilot tenant controls, and workplace scorecard — close shadow AI from the positive side. 3 steps AI / ML, risk, stewards, architects ≈ 2–3 days AI assurance AI assurance ops Impact pack, fairness gates, red-team cadence, GPAI roles, post-market, and assurance scorecard. 3 steps Legal/IP, stewards, AI, marketing ≈ 2–3 days rights & media AI rights & media Rights register, output claims, multimodal paths, deepfake/authenticity, and evidence pack. 3 steps Platform, BI, engineering, architects ≈ 2–3 days embedded surfaces Embedded AI surfaces Code assist in SDLC, BI Copilot gates, GenAI routing/residency, surface inventory, and scorecard. 3 steps Governance leads, architects, platform ≈ 1 week end-to-end End-to-end governance Architecture, dbt meta, raw automation, and masking as one control chain — not isolated tools. 3 steps Architecture, platform, BI leads ≈ 2–3 days stack decision Simplest viable stack Choose the simplest solid architecture — before bronze/silver/gold or tool lists take over the debate. 3 steps Platform, architecture, governance on CDP/Hadoop ≈ 3–5 weeks governance + optional year reporting track Cloudera CDP governance Governance entry on Cloudera CDP: choose the starting point, treat Ranger/Atlas/Hive as the operating surface, add Kafka, document tools and stack — without mistaking tooling for authority. 6 steps Platform, architecture, governance on Argonos (EU-near) ≈ 3–4 weeks governance + deep dive Argonos governance Governance entry on Argonos: fit beyond BIG 5, start story, operating boundary, multi-platform and evidence — without mistaking sovereignty for authority. 5 steps New users, CoE, consultants — platform onboarding ≈ 1 week orientation Governance help hub Use the platform as a work chain: tours, Advisor, stories, learning paths, tools, language/roles, radar — and start a first sprint. 5 steps Platform, analytics engineering, governance on CDP ≈ 3 quarters (FQ → Q2 → Q3) Cloudera CDP reporting year Year roadmap CDP Lakehouse / dbt / Power BI: understand the landscape, A–Z prototype, governance & app factory — parallel to the Databricks path. 3 steps Owners, stewards, architects — status on the artefact ≈ half a day Acceptance gates on the artefact Status lives on the artefact, not in ticket chat. Separate draft, reviewed, approved, and evidence. 4 steps Stewards, architects, consumers — operate catalog search ≈ half a day Operate catalog search Synonyms, stale hits, and ranking are operating work. Clicks are not authority. 4 steps Owners, stewards — decision records instead of minutes ≈ half a day Keep governance decision records The brief is not minutes. Review date, expiry, and change without losing history. 4 steps Owners, architects — retirement across artefacts ≈ half a day Retirement across artefacts Retire table, metric, dashboard claim, and AI corpus separately — the same A logic. 4 steps Stewards, owners, consumers — feedback on the claim row ≈ half a day Consumer feedback loop A misread dashboard is triaged; the owner decides; catalog and BI carry the fix. 4 steps Governance lead — operating metrics, not a vanity dashboard ≈ half a day Hold operating metrics The board pack is one page. Size, hat, and function — not a headcount cockpit. 4 steps Owners, DPO, HR — co-determination as C, not A ≈ half a day Operate co-determination Works council is consulted. Evidence before the employee load. A no needs a return path. 4 steps Owners, stewards — ethics as a decision, not a poster ≈ half a day Hold ethics beside compliance Compliant can still be unfair. Population, reasoned no, not a values poster. 4 steps Stewards, custodians, architects — publish path, not a tenant tutorial ≈ half a day BI publish deep dive One semantic, one app: stage, refresh A, reduction adapter. Workspace admin is not data owner. 3 steps Stewards, architects, consumers — surface before promotion, not a wireframe gallery ≈ half a day Dashboard and report design deep dive One surface for one decision: type, scan or sheet or alert, design gate before promotion. 3 steps Stewards, architects, consumers — chart contract before the chart picker ≈ one day Chart choice deep dive Task before the chart picker: type, bans per surface, honest scale, field before promotion. 3 steps Stewards, custodians, architects — tool history into a scan app, not a traffic light ≈ half a day Governance app deep dive One grain from the DQ tools, outcome KPIs, one semantic, three adapters, surface gate. 3 steps Sales: Banking and insurance short sales entry Sales enablement: Banking and insurance Industry-specific entry for governance as a service in Banking and insurance. 2 steps Sales: Healthcare short sales entry Sales enablement: Healthcare Industry-specific entry for governance as a service in Healthcare. 2 steps Sales: Public sector short sales entry Sales enablement: Public sector Industry-specific entry for governance as a service in Public sector. 2 steps Sales: Finance and controlling short sales entry Sales enablement: Finance and controlling Industry-specific entry for governance as a service in Finance and controlling. 2 steps Sales: Manufacturing short sales entry Sales enablement: Manufacturing Industry-specific entry for governance as a service in Manufacturing. 2 steps Sales: Retail and commerce short sales entry Sales enablement: Retail and commerce Industry-specific entry for governance as a service in Retail and commerce. 2 steps Sales: Software and product development short sales entry Sales enablement: Software and product development Industry-specific entry for governance as a service in Software and product development. 2 steps Teams with an active governance project ≈ 4 weeks parallel to the project Cert + project in parallel When several certificates run beside delivery: a shared companion plan for exercises, evidence, and transfer — so learning does not detach from the project. 3 steps People taking the dbt certification ≈ 4 weeks cert companion dbt cert companion You are taking the official dbt certification — this path and sprint plan accompany you week by week: learn → labs → exam → transfer into the project. 4 steps People taking DP-600 / PL-300 ≈ 4 weeks cert companion Fabric / Power BI cert companion You are heading for DP-600 (Fabric Analytics Engineer) and/or PL-300 (Power BI Data Analyst) — this path and sprint plan accompany learning, labs, and the exam. 4 steps