For years, data governance has been obsessed with a metric that feels more like accounting than strategic decision-making: coverage. Data Governance tool vendors educated a generation of governance professionals to diligently track the percentage of documented data, chasing a completion checkbox that often misses the bigger picture.
The problem? Coverage misses the mark. It assumes that meticulously documented data automatically translates to understandable, usable information. But what if the end user just needs an answer to a question? Why make them navigate a labyrinth of tables, columns and descriptions when the goal is simply to get the right information, quickly and efficiently?