Skip to content

A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

658·40

accountability

/əˌkaʊn.təˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A quality every initiative is said to require and every org chart is careful never to locate.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The obligation of a single named party to answer for a decision and its consequences; not delegable, unlike the work itself.

Promoted

Seen in the wild · 8

ISO gave AI a management system. It did not define your training data.Business Sense Required
OpenTelemetry standardized the labels. The business meaning still lives outside the trace.Metric Theater
The Schema History Topic Remembers What Nobody Wrote DownDefinition Drift
The Master Data Quadrant Returns After a Four-Year SabbaticalShiny Object Pursuit
The Company That Sells the Single Source Becomes a Row in Someone Else'sPlatform Tunnel Vision
The Build Checks the Shape. It Will Not Enforce the Promise.Owner Missing
Everyone Agreed on the YAML. Nobody Agreed on the Owner.Definition Drift
Moving Revenue Into A YAML File Does Not Give It An OwnerOwner Missing

See also

data ownerA field on a slide, populated last quarter with the name of whoever wasn't there to refuse.
decision rightsWho may decide, within what bounds — the one field every RACI leaves to a future workshop.