Tuesday, April 25, 2006

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Level: Introductory

Discuss the successes and failures of the implementation of our Data Management Initiative including the Enterprise Metadata Repository, sprinkled with touches of humor. This will include the perils of funding or lack thereof, management support, and other roadblocks we've encountered in our quest. We'll poke fun at our stumbles and hopefully provide enough information to keep others from making the same mistakes we did. Along the way, we will address topics such as dealing with politics, vendors, IT naysayers and business community dreamers.

• Original Hopes and Dreams
• Building the dream team and infrastructure
• The Quick Win – Was it?
• New budget year, no budget *?!%&
• Death of the dream team
• Phoenix rising from the ashes

Amy Pfaff has been in IT for 20 years wearing many hats. She is your typical Southern Oracle DBA with a keen eye for ambiguity. She is currently the project lead for the DMI project at TIAA-CREF.