Organizational Dynamics

103 posts filed under Organizational Dynamics.

Watch who picks up the data tickets at a 40-person company. It tells you who owns data.

If a model writes the pipelines, I don't know yet where your juniors learn why pipelines break.

I've worked with data teams where someone spotted the broken number first and decided not to mention it.

Companies are writing one job ad for three different jobs and calling it an AI data engineer.

The hybrid teams paying the least tax have two rituals and fewer meetings.

A backend deploy broke the data pipeline for the third time this quarter. Both teams had done their jobs correctly.

We changed the questions in the postmortem, and the recurring outage stopped recurring.

Four questions, asked consistently, replaced most of one engineering manager's architecture decisions.

Nobody owned the orders table. Everyone had opinions about it in the incident channel.

Your engineers are already learning AI at work. The only question is whether it's sanctioned.

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