Data Modeling Contentious Issues
A highly interactive and popular session where attendees evaluate the options and best practices of common and advanced data modeling issues, such as:
- Party/party role
- Natural vs. surrogate keys
- Class Models vs. Data Models
- SOAs, Ontologies, ESBs, New TLAs and Shoe Strings
- What is Logical? What is Physical? Why Do We Care?
- Politics vs. Customer Satisfaction
...and others Participants in this session will be presenting with an issue along with a range of responses or possible solutions. Participants will vote on their preferred response, then the group as a whole will discuss the results, along with the merits of each possible response. If the specific issue has been discussed in other presentations, a summary of the responses of the other groups will be presented. The goal of this workshop is to help practitioners identify potential points of conflict in data modeling, as well as alternative approaches to resolving the issues. This presentation is targeted at experienced data modelers and assumes extensive data modeling skills.
This session was especially energizing. I think everyone in the room had run into most of these situations at some point in their careers, it was fun to see how everyone voted, and to hear (and share) the differing points of view. I'm still firmly convinced that "it depends!"
Comments (1)
K Reister said
at 11:08 am on May 16, 2006
This was not quite a presentation but instead a session aimed at encouraging idea sharing, communication, finding out what methods other practicioners feel are important. I would like to see more such interaction and idea sharing going on perhaps for periods of greater than an hour. Although much of this could be accomplished at a regional DAMA meeting it is much more impressive at an international meeting.
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