UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

Data journey is a tool aiding the identification of high costs and risks of new IT developments where data is moved in an existing network of systems, people, and organisations. Aims to assist the decision making process of whether is worth implementing new functionality on an existing network of data... Data journeys can identify both technical and social factors affecting the failure of an IT system. Examples are the movement of data between incompatible, heterogeneous databases, inconsistent types of data sources, lack of trust of the sources by the end users, staff resistance to adopt the new system, wrong interpretation of the data at the new context and many more.

Also known as: data journey