The Data Equity Framework is a process that helps you to identify the many key choices you’ll have to make in a data project and provides tools and strategies to help improve your choice-making to better align with your equity goals. The other day someone raised a...
An essential step in the Data Equity Framework is creating a Motivation Touchtone. (Check out part 1, part 2 and part 3 of how to make a Motivation Touchstone.) One of the most important parts of that process is outlining, in as much detail as you can, the key...
A well-crafted Motivation Touchstone contains your success criteria and aimed-for rewards, as well as a summary of the major restrictions and parameters that your project faces. These elements give us its outline, the scaffolding required to make decisions throughout...
When it comes to data projects, one of the most powerful tools we use is what we call a Motivation Touchstone. It’s a document that you and your team can return to over and over for guidance when figuring out how to make effective and equitable decisions at every step...
When it comes to data projects, one of the most powerful tools we use is what we call a Motivation Touchstone. It’s a document that you and your team can return to over and over for guidance when figuring out how to make effective and equitable decisions at...
Why are you doing your data project? This is the key question of the second step in The Data Lifecycle: Motivation. All data projects have a driving force behind them, often many at once. A clear, transparent definition of all the reasons why a project is being done...