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Aug 16, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

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.

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Aug 15, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

Eng Manager Data Questions

Four questions, asked consistently, replaced most of one engineering manager's architecture decisions.

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Aug 9, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Observability Blast Radius

A failure that cost one dashboard last year now takes out 40 downstream jobs. The platform grew. The alerts didn't.

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Aug 1, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

Risk Sharing In Data Failures

On one team, engineers reported their own near-misses weekly. Incidents dropped within a quarter.

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Jul 30, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

DORA For Data Reliability

The DORA metrics are over a decade old, proven on software teams, and unused on most data teams I meet.

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Jul 18, 2026 Fractional & Leadership

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.

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Jul 15, 2026 Platform & Velocity

Series A To B Stack Pivot

The warehouse that carried you to Series A can quietly become the wrong one by Series B.

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Jul 12, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Data Product Canvas Update For AI Consumers

Your newest data consumers don't file tickets. They're AI agents, and they break differently.

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Jul 10, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

Phoenix Project Lessons For DE

The Phoenix Project is 13 years old. Data teams still run their backlogs the way it warns against.

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Jul 7, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

Brooks Law In Data Hires

A scaleup added 3 data engineers to catch up. Delivery got slower for 2 months.

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