Organizational Dynamics
101 posts filed under Organizational Dynamics.
Stack Overflow On DE Shortage
The best data engineers move for ownership and a manager who can describe the strategy. A 10% bump alone rarely does it.
Read →Ownership Vacuum After First Hire
The junior left in March. In May, marketing's dashboard broke and nobody knew who to call.
Read →DORA Metrics For Data Pipelines
The DORA metrics work for data teams. Most data teams aren't measuring them.
Read →The Hiring Gap For Senior DEs
87% of tech leaders rate senior data engineer hiring as difficult. Most of them are bidding against AI startups.
Read →Westrum Culture In Data Teams
If your post-mortems start with "who shipped that," your org culture is the bug.
Read →Brent Is Your Data Engineer (Phoenix Project applied)
Every data team has a Brent. The person every ticket eventually routes through.
Read →Blameless Post-Mortem Template for Data Incidents
Your data incident post-mortems end with "be more careful." That's not a fix.
Read →Data mesh is an org design pattern. Here are the 5 things you need before you st
Data mesh is an org design pattern. Here are the 5 things you need before you start.
Read →Everyone says "people, process, technology." Then they start by picking Snowflak
Everyone says "people, process, technology." Then they start by picking Snowflake.
Read →Hybrid work changed how your data team collaborates. Nobody adjusted the archite
Hybrid work changed how your data team collaborates. Nobody adjusted the architecture decisions for it.
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