Keeping the Record Is Not Keeping the Definition

Every governance program is built to add definitions and none of them can retire one. In a regulated shop that gets worse, because the instinct to keep every record gets misread as a ban on ever deprecating a definition. They’re different objects.

June 23, 2026 · 3 min · Joe Capozzoli

Data Governance That Survives an Inspection

The samples post ended on seating a data steward. This is what you build around that seat in a regulated life sciences org: the roles you actually need, the order to do it in, and why the regulation is the only budget argument that ever works.

June 9, 2026 · 7 min · Joe Capozzoli