BOOKS, PRESENTATIONS, BLOGS AND ARTICLES BY DANETTE

BOOKS and REPORTS

• Executing Data Quality Projects:  Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information™ - 2nd Edition by Danette McGilvray, (Elsevier/Academic Press, 2021)
• Executing Data Quality Projects:  Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information™ by Danette McGilvray, (Morgan Kaufman, 2008)
• Data Quality Programs and Projects, Danette's chapter in the book Handbook of Data Quality: Research and Practice. Shazia Sadiq, editor (Springer, 2013). At www.springer.com or your favorite bookseller. 
• Data Quality and Governance in Projects: Knowledge in Action by Danette McGilvray and Masha Bykin: May 2013 in Cutter Consortium's Data Insight and Social BI (Feel free to share this link, however, Cutter requests that people go to the Cutter site to download the article, so please do not post or distribute the pdf directly.)

THE LEADER'S DATA MANIFESTO

• The Leader's Data Manifesto by Danette McGilvray, Tom Redman, James Price, John Ladley, and Kelle O’Neal: April 2017. Join the movement and sign today. Learn more at www.dataleaders.org.
• The Manifesto is a document used to raise awareness about treating data as a business asset. Danette has overseen its translation into 24 languages.

PRESENTATION RECORDINGS

• Data Quality and Managing Data as an Asset. Presentation by Danette McGilvray for FGV, May 15, 2025.
• Book Club: Executing Data Quality Projects. Presentation by Danette McGilvray for DAMA Central Ohio Chapter (Buckeye DAMA), April 18, 2024. 
• What CDOs Need to Know, and Do, About Data Quality. Presentation by Danette McGilvray for International Society of Chief Data Officers (isCDO), May 19, 2022.
• Business Value - Where Data and Quality Meet. Presentation by Danette McGilvray for DAMA Perú, April 21, 2022.
• Applying the Ten Steps Methodology. Presentation by Danette McGilvray for UA Little Rock Students in Course INFQ 7337 Project and Change Management, April 19, 2022.
• Business Value - Where Data and Quality Meet. Presentation by Danette McGilvray for UA Little Rock STEM Colloquium Series, February 11, 2022.

ARTICLES and BLOG POSTS

• Ten Years of Data Qualtiy Lessons by Danette McGilvray: April 21, 2025, reprint of TDAN article first published on October 1, 2015
• Data Quality: Are You and Your Team Prepared? by Danette McGilvray: November 2024 on IRM Connects.
• Is Your Life a Data Quality Issue by Danette McGilvray: July 2024 on IRM Connects.
• Data Quality: A Worldwide Issue by Danette McGilvray: February 2024 on IRM Connects.
• Get Smart with Your Communication by Danette McGilvray: September 2023 on IRM Connects.
• Ten Steps to Quality Data by Danette McGilvray: February 28, 2022 on IRM Connects.
• Showing the Business Impact of Data Quality by Danette McGilvray: September 29, 2021 on IRM  Connects.
• Data Quality Problems Everywhere You Look by Danette McGilvray: September 1, 2021 on TDAN.com
• Finding Solutions in a Complex World by Danette McGilvray: May 28, 2021 on IRM Connects
• Data Management has Failed! An Presented Us with a Historic Opportunity by John Ladley and Thomas Redman; co-authored by Theresa Kushner, Danette McGilvray, James Price, Len Silverston: May 18, 2020 on DATAVERSITY
• Three Career Tips for Data Professionals by Danette McGilvray: October 25, 2019 on IRM Connects
• Are You New to Data Quality? Three Essential Best Practices by Danette McGilvray: April 25, 2019 on IRM Connects
• Are Data Quality Problems Impacting Your Organization? by Danette McGilvray: September 28, 2018 on IRM Connects
• The Leader's Data Manifesto by Danette McGilvray: September 28, 2017 on IRM Connects

• Data Quality and the GDPR by Danette McGilvray: July 26, 2017 on IRM  Connects
• Calling All Data Provocateurs-The Leaders Data Manifesto by Tom Redman with Danette McGilvray and James Price: July 13, 2017
• The Leader's Data Manifesto by Danette McGilvray, Tom Redman, James Price, John Ladley, and Kelle O’Neal: April 2017. Join the movement and sign today. Learn more at www.dataleaders.org
• The Power of Small Efforts for Data Professionals by Danette McGilvray: November 22, 2016 on IRM Connects
• Trusting Election Results--It's All About Data Quality by Danette McGilvray: August 26, 2016 on Dataversity
• Perennial Data Problems by Danette McGilvray: April 15, 2016 on SciTech Connect
• Data Quality - Why I Do What I Do by Danette McGilvray: March 17, 2016 on IRM Connects
• The Data Quality Perspective by Danette McGilvray: February 3, 2016 on Dataversity
• Just Enough by Danette McGilvray: September 10, 2015 on IRM Connects
• Ten Years of Data Quality Lessons by Danette McGilvray: October 1, 2015 on TDAN.com
• Tenth Anniversary of Granite Falls: A Retrospective and Looking Forward by Danette McGilvray: April 21, 2015
• Thoughts on EDW 2015 and CDO Vision by Danette McGilvray: April 9, 2015 on SciTech Connect
• Information Data Quality Summit Comes to Virginia by Danette McGilvray: September 12, 2014 on SciTech Connect
• What a CDO Needs to Know About Data Quality webinar with Danette McGilvray: September 4, 2014
• Business Impact of Data Quality by Danette McGilvray: July 2014 on Technology Transfer
• The Small World of Data Quality by Danette McGilvray: April 23, 2014 on SciTech Connect
• Gaining Support for Data Quality by Danette McGilvray: March 2014 in IRMUK's e-newsletter, the 5th most read IRMUK article of 2014
• Reflecting on the IDQ 2013 Conference and Other DQ Resources by Danette McGilvray: November 12, 2013 on SciTech Connect
• The Information Life Cycle-Vital for Managing Data Quality by Danette McGilvray: September 2013 in IRM UK's e-newsletter
• Data Quality and Governance in Projects: Knowledge in Action by Danette McGilvray and Masha Bykin: May 2013 in Cutter Consortium's Data Insight and Social BI (Feel free to share this link, however, Cutter requests that people go to the Cutter site to download the article, so please do not post or distribute the pdf directly.)
• "My Life is a Data Quality Battle" Is this how your customers talk about your company? by Danette McGilvray and Tom Redman: March 2012 in IAIDQ's Information Quality Journal
• Case Study: Aera Energy LLC Uses Anecdotes from Knowledge Worker Surveys and Stories to Build the Case for Information Quality: July 2011 in IAIDQ's Information and Data Quality Newletter
• Author and consultant says "showing up" is a key to career success: September 2009 in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business Alumni Magazine
• Get Smart Communications: October 2008 in TDWI Flashpoint
• Data Categories: July 2008 in IAIDQ's Information and Data Quality Newsletter
• The Information Life Cycle: May 2008 in The Information Quality Newsletter from the BeyeNetwork
• Articles by Danette McGilvray: 2005-2008 for Information Management Online
• Data Quality and the Project Life Cycle: July 2007 in TDAN.com (The Data Administration Newsletter)
• Data Governance: A Necessity in an Integrated Information World, Part 2: January 2007 in Information Management
• Data Governance: A Necessity in an Integrated Information World, Part 1: December 2006 in Information Management

INTERVIEWS 

For Interviews with Danette McGilvray, click here.