Organizational Dynamics
108 posts filed under Organizational Dynamics.
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.
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.
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