People

Developing a Communities of Practice

enables UBC to develop opportunities for collaboration to create competencies of a data driven organization.

It also encourages groups to perform collaborative problem solving, skill development and community building.

Ensure ongoing leadership and attention to make decisions on how to orchestrate specific use cases that will benefit the UBC community

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Current Groups of Communities of Practices

Workday

The Integrated Service Centre and Enterprise Data Governance have partnered to co-lead the report writer community pilot

Tableau User Group

Tableau is currently used as a tool to develop dashboards and perform analysis across UBC. The University Data Platform is leveraging the use of Tableau for its needs as well. The Tableau User Group brings Tableau Users together to share ideas on how to best leverage the capabilities of Tableau; discuss challenges with the tool; propose new features.

Participation

Attendees from UBC Users Group and other units who want to evaluate Tableau as their tool to build dashboards to enable operational decisions.

Outcomes

Create a community of practice of Tableau users:

  • Share ideas on how to best leverage Tableau
  • Share potential use cases for Tableau
  • Raise desired features for the vendor to develop
  • The vendor provides updates on and new features, changes in policies, licensing model etc.

PBI Pilot

The PBI Pilot focuses on enabling PAIR to consolidate the Okanagan Enrolment Planning Model into a single tool.

Participation

  • Data Governance
  • Enterprise Data and Reporting
  • PAIR (Okanagan)
  • Microsoft
  • UBC IT

Outcomes

  • Understanding of PowerBI Capabilities
  • Clear articulation of Microsoft Licensing Costs
  • Clear understanding of support requirements
  • Understanding of PowerBi Security
  • All information required to decide to best leverage PowerBI for reporting and analytics in UBC

Data Brokerage

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Data Stewardship

Data Stewards are university business officials that have direct operational-level responsibility for the management of one or more types of Institutional Data. To learn more, please visit our Data Governance People section.

Roles and Responsibilities <NEED APPROVAL FROM JENNIFER>

A decision framework was created to minimize governance overhead, streamline decision making to working teams, and accelerate decision making and increase agility.

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