I discovered two great resources for data management in the past couple of weeks: Data Cleaning Plan and Data Audits
What I like about both articles is that they are both:
Practical
Approachable for non-technical users. I feel I could share these articles and managers of social service providers could understand them.
I started writing a data cleaning plan, and I am pleased I started the process. Writing out the plan provided a sense of relief to have it out of my head and into documentation. It also struck me that much of my data cleaning should be in my Readme file.