Organizational Dynamics
96 posts filed under Organizational Dynamics.
The Compliance Incident That Cost a Giant Fine (And One Email)
They had microservices, a data lake, and Grafana dashboards for everything. They didn't have an answer to "where does this customer's data …
Read →Parts Unlimited" Is Your Data Platform
The Phoenix Project described a company drowning in unplanned work. Gene Kim called it Parts Unlimited. You might recognize the patterns.
Read →Communication Overhead Kills Data Team Velocity
You doubled your data team. Delivery got worse. Fred Brooks explained why in 1975.
Read →Analytics Lead Time - The Time to Insight Metric
Your data team takes 2 weeks to answer a business question. That decision's already been made.
Read →The Five Ideals Applied to Data Teams
Gene Kim wrote The Unicorn Project about a developer trapped in bureaucracy. Data engineers live that story every day.
Read →The Shadow IT Problem - When Fast Beats Right
Shadow IT doesn't start with rogue employees. It starts when the gap between 'I need this' and 'we can deliver this' gets too wide.
Read →The Three Ways Applied to Data Pipelines
Your data team ships pipelines fast. That's the First Way. They're ignoring the other two.
Read →Why Companies Hire a Data Architect Consultant (And When You Shouldn't)
You don't always need a data architect consultant. Here's how to know if you do, what to expect, and how to avoid hiring the wrong person.
Read →Waiting for LLMs vs Waiting for Compilation
We spent a decade optimizing compilation times. Now we're staring at an LLM spinner doing the exact same thing.
Read →Cost of Tribal Knowledge
Nobody sets out to hoard knowledge.
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