Data Governance Readiness Checklist
Free: Data Governance Readiness Checklist
A two-page checklist of 32 statements across 8 areas of data governance, with a spreadsheet that scores your answers. It takes about 15 minutes.
What's included
- Data Governance Readiness Checklist.pdf (2 pages): the 32 statements grouped by area (leadership, roles and ownership, policies, data inventory, data quality, classification and privacy, access and retention, and operating rhythm), a simple tick score and the first action to take in each area.
- Data Governance Readiness Assessment.xlsx (Excel and Google Sheets): rate each statement from Not started to In place for an overall score, a level and score for each area, the three areas to work on first and a chart.
Works in Excel 2016 or later, Microsoft 365, Google Sheets and LibreOffice.
If you want templates for the weaker areas, the Data Governance Starter Pack has one for each.
Free for use within your own organization; please don't resell or redistribute it. General guidance, not legal advice.
Designed and reviewed by Keel & Charter. AI tools helped build the spreadsheets, draft the text and lay out the preview images. Preview images show the actual files with sample data.