Worked Walkthrough: Split Owner vs Steward vs Engineer
Assign owner, steward, and engineering responsibilities to one data element without role blur.
The field customer_status is causing reporting disputes and incident churn because no one has separated semantic authority from technical custody. Assign roles by decision type: owner for business meaning and risk, steward for definition and control operation, engineer for technical implementation. The trap is to assign one person “end-to-end ownership” without clarifying which decisions that really includes. Step 1 Name the business owner as the person who accepts what customer_status should mean and which tradeoffs are acceptable. Owners are accountable for business interpretation and risk, not for debugging jobs or writing SQL. Step 2 Name the steward as the person…
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