Dashboard
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ROI Measures For Pipelines
We scored a client's pipelines on cost against consumption. About 1 in 5 had a monthly bill and zero consumers.
Read →Eng Manager Data Questions
Four questions, asked consistently, replaced most of one engineering manager's architecture decisions.
Read →Observability Blast Radius
A failure that cost one dashboard last year now takes out 40 downstream jobs. The platform grew. The alerts didn't.
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 →Fractional Positioning For BE Startups
A CTO said "that's exactly us" four minutes into the call. The pitch was a description of his company.
Read →Series A To B Stack Pivot
The warehouse that carried you to Series A can quietly become the wrong one by Series B.
Read →Data Product Canvas Update For AI Consumers
Your newest data consumers don't file tickets. They're AI agents, and they break differently.
Read →Phoenix Project Lessons For DE
The Phoenix Project is 13 years old. Data teams still run their backlogs the way it warns against.
Read →Brooks Law In Data Hires
A scaleup added 3 data engineers to catch up. Delivery got slower for 2 months.
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