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Data Contract

11 posts filed under Data Contract.

Jul 17, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

Cost Of No Data Contracts

A team of 8 data engineers spent roughly 30% of their week negotiating schema changes in Slack.

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May 23, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

DORA Metrics For Data Pipelines

The DORA metrics work for data teams. Most data teams aren't measuring them.

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May 16, 2026 Data Architecture

Contract-First Data For Cross-Team Handoffs

Most cross-team data fights are caused by an undocumented assumption upstream.

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Apr 8, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

The Data Contract That Saved a Product Launch

The data contract didn't save the launch. It saved the three days of firefighting that would have followed.

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Mar 29, 2026 Fractional Journey & Lessons

The Fractional Engagement - 2 Days Per Week, EUR120K Impact

A client budgeted for a full-time data architect they couldn't find, so we tried something different.

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Mar 28, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

Data Governance - The Spectrum from Anarchy to Bureaucracy

Your data governance is either too loose to trust or too tight to ship.

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Mar 22, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

The Data Contracts Rollout - From Chaos to 60% Coverage in 90 Days

Data contracts sound great in theory. Here's what it actually looks like to implement them - week by week, with the parts that almost …

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Mar 18, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

The Migration That Didn't Solve Anything

The most expensive way to avoid fixing your organizational problems: migrate to a new data platform.

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Feb 1, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

The €250K Migration That Didn't Need to Happen

The €250K migration wasn't a technology project. It was an expensive way to avoid hard conversations.

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Jan 28, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

mise en place for data teams

Skip your prep and service falls apart. Every chef knows this. Most data teams learn it the hard way.

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