Product · Bronze / Silver · Stage 02

Governance Council Design & Setup

Council structure, charter, RACI, decision rights, business glossary, data dictionary, and policy set. The infrastructure that makes analytics trustworthy. Templates at Bronze — SSA-facilitated implementation at Silver.

The Template Library · Bronze Pillar 2

14 governance templates. Every document you need to establish a working data governance structure.

Each template is structured, pre-populated with field guidance, and designed to be completed by leadership, program, or operations staff — not data engineers. SSA scoring guides are included with the Bronze package.

Governance Council Charter
Mission, scope, authority, and decision rights
Roles & Responsibilities Matrix (RACI)
Who is responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed for each data function
Data Governance Policy One-Pager
Board-ready governance commitment document
Business Glossary Template
Shared definitions for all key business terms
Data Dictionary Starter
Field-level definitions, types, and ownership
Metric Dictionary Template
How each metric is calculated, who owns it, where it lives
Data Quality Issue Log
Document, track, and resolve data quality problems
Data Cleaning Reference Guide
Standards for normalizing, deduplicating, and validating records
Data Access Policy
Who can access what, and through what approval process
Data Retention Schedule
Retention rules by data type and regulatory requirement
Council Meeting Agenda & Minutes
Recurring agenda structure and decision logging format
Data Lineage Map Starter
Source-to-report traceability template
Donor Data Health Checklist
CRM data quality evaluation and remediation checklist
Privacy & Responsible Data Checklist
PII handling, consent, and data minimization assessment
Bronze vs Silver

Self-guided or facilitated — your capacity determines the track.

Bronze · Included in $1,299
DIY Governance Foundation
Governance Template Library
  • ✓All 14 templates — immediate download
  • ✓SSA field guidance included in each template
  • ✓Scoring guide for interpreting DMA governance domain results
  • ✓Works best for organizations with some internal capacity to implement
  • No SSA facilitation or review
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Silver · Governance Window · From $6,500
SSA-Facilitated Implementation
Full Build + Delivery
  • ✓Everything in Bronze
  • ✓Facilitated governance council design
  • ✓RACI development with leadership team
  • ✓Business glossary co-build (all key terms defined)
  • ✓Data quality remediation planning
  • ✓Policy adoption and documentation
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The sequencing rule applies here: Governance comes before analytics. The business glossary and data dictionary produced in this stage are the input the KPI framework and Analytics Use Case Machine need. Skipping governance to get to dashboards faster produces dashboards that are either wrong or that leadership quietly stops trusting.

Start with the Assessment

Your governance gaps are in the DMA results.

Domain 02 — Governance & Definitions — is often the lowest-scoring domain and the highest-leverage investment. The assessment shows you exactly where the governance gaps are before you build anything.

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