Organizational Dynamics
101 posts filed under Organizational Dynamics.
The Feedback Loop - Why Data Incidents Keep Recurring
Your data team hides problems because they'll get blamed for them. The Unicorn Project calls this the downward spiral. Here's how to break …
Read →Brent Is Your Senior Data Engineer
Every data team has a Brent. The one person who knows everything. The one person the org can't afford to lose. The one person who's about to …
Read →The Death of the Full-Stack Data Engineer
Stop hiring full-stack data engineers. They don't exist, and pretending they do is burning your team out.
Read →The Dashboard Nobody Uses (EUR60K Lesson)
Three months of development. EUR60K in cost. Zero daily users. The most expensive screensaver I've ever seen.
Read →CALMS for Data Organizations
The DevOps Handbook has a framework called CALMS. Most data teams only do the A. Here's what they're missing.
Read →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.
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