Organizational Dynamics
108 posts filed under Organizational Dynamics.
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.
Read →Risk Sharing In Data Failures
On one team, engineers reported their own near-misses weekly. Incidents dropped within a quarter.
Read →DORA For Data Reliability
The DORA metrics are over a decade old, proven on software teams, and unused on most data teams I meet.
Read →DE Compensation Trends EU
A client budgeted 2024 salaries for a 2026 data engineer role. The vacancy is now in month six.
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