Organizational Dynamics
101 posts filed under Organizational Dynamics.
Messenger Training In Teams
I've worked with data teams where someone spotted the broken number first and decided not to mention it.
Read →AI Engineer Shortage Impact
Companies are writing one job ad for three different jobs and calling it an AI data engineer.
Read →Hybrid Work Collaboration Tax (Update)
The hybrid teams paying the least tax have two rituals and fewer meetings.
Read →Cross-Functional Data Ownership
A backend deploy broke the data pipeline for the third time this quarter. Both teams had done their jobs correctly.
Read →Blame Post-Mortem Alt
We changed the questions in the postmortem, and the recurring outage stopped recurring.
Read →Eng Manager Data Questions
Four questions, asked consistently, replaced most of one engineering manager's architecture decisions.
Read →Ownership Vacuum Patterns
Nobody owned the orders table. Everyone had opinions about it in the incident channel.
Read →36% Learn AI Via Tools
Your engineers are already learning AI at work. The only question is whether it's sanctioned.
Read →Pipeline Full-Time Owner Trap (Year 2 Update)
One pipeline quietly consumed a full data engineer. On a team of 5, that's 20% of capacity feeding one job.
Read →Leadership Debt Compounds
Tech debt gets a backlog and a budget. Leadership debt gets a shrug, and it compounds faster.
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