1. Is there a policy mandating use of and reference to the business glossary?
2. How are organization-wide business terms, definitions, and corresponding metadata created, approved, verified, and managed?
3. Is the business glossary promulgated and made accessible to all stakeholders?
4. Are business terms referenced as the first step in the design of application
data stores and repositories?
5. Does the organization perform cross-referencing and mapping of busi- ness-specific terms (synonyms, business unit glossaries, logical attributes, physical data elements, etc.) to standardized business terms?
6. How is the organization’s business glossary enhanced and maintained to reflect changes and additions?
7. What role does data governance perform in creating, approving, managing, and updating business terms?
8. Is a compliance process implemented to ensure that business units and projects are correctly applying business terms?
9. Does the organization employ a defined process for stakeholders to provide feedback about business terms?