Veridon DataCore: Governance Charter Kickoff

$4.2M / 14-month initiative

6 stakeholder groups • 3 vendor partners

Kick-off date: 14 April 2025

67%

of enterprise platform projects miss their first major milestone due to unclear decision authority

Standish Chaos Report 2024 internal benchmark

IN SCOPE

  • ✓ Cloud data warehouse (Snowflake)
  • ✓ ETL pipelines (dbt)
  • ✓ Reporting layer (Sigma)
  • ✓ Data lineage & governance
  • ✓ Legacy migration (14 years)

OUT OF SCOPE

  • ✗ CRM integration
  • ✗ Front-office trading feeds
  • ✗ Mobile BI applications
  • ✗ Real-time streaming analytics
  • ✗ Customer-facing portals

Milestone Chain

2 MAY
Discovery Lock
30 MAY
Architecture Sign-off
13 JUN
Vendor Onboarding
25 JUL
Pilot Go-live
5 SEP
UAT Complete
14 OCT
Production Launch

RACI Matrix

Workstream CDO CTO Delivery Lead Data Eng Lead Compliance Finance Vendor PM
Architecture A R C C I I C
Data Migration C I A R C I R
Vendor Management A C R C I C C
Budget Control A I C I I R I
Compliance Review C I C C A R I C
User Acceptance A I R C C C C
Production Cutover A A R R C I R

Risk Register

High Medium Low LIKELIHOOD IMPACT Snowflake cost overrun Vendor SLA miss Scope creep Data quality gaps
$4.2M
Total Budget

Budget Authority Tiers

Under $25K — Delivery Lead
$25K–$150K — CDO + CFO
Over $150K — Board sign-off

Operating Cadence

Daily Standup

15 min

Owner: Priya Nambiar

Delivery team + vendors

Weekly Status

45 min

Owner: Marcus Whitfield

All stakeholder leads

Bi-weekly Steering

60 min

Owner: CDO + CTO

Exec-level decisions

Monthly Exec Review

90 min

Owner: Program Office

Board-level reporting

Change Control Board

48-hr SLA

Owner: Delivery Lead

Ad hoc, as triggered

Incident War Room

Immediate

Owner: CTO

Critical issues only

Dependency & Vendor Map

Veridon DataCore Snowflake Inc. Infrastructure dbt Labs SI ETL Partner Sigma CSM Reporting Layer Data Eng Jin Park Compliance Sandra Okafor Finance Tomás Reyes
"No scope change ships without a written impact assessment approved at the correct authority tier."

— Project Charter §4.2

1
Request Submitted
Delivery Lead logs change
2
Impact Assessment
Tech + Finance review
3
Approval Gate
Authority-tier sign-off
V

Every named stakeholder
signs today.

This document is the operating contract.

Marcus Whitfield
CDO, Executive Sponsor
Priya Nambiar
Delivery Lead
Jin Park
Data Engineering Lead
Sandra Okafor
Compliance Lead
Tomás Reyes
Finance Lead
Vendor Partners
Arcturus, Lattice, Sigma