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21 posts filed under Data Product.

Mar 25, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

The Team That Automated Themselves Out of Firefighting

A data team spent 60% of their week doing the same manual tasks - and nobody questioned it for two years.

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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 13, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

The Self-Service Analytics Maturity Ladder

"Self-service analytics" at most companies means "we gave everyone PowerBI access and hoped for the best."

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Mar 9, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

The Deployment Pipeline Concept Applied to Data Products

Your data team deploys to production the same way software teams did in 2008. Manually, nervously, with a 1000-step runbook nobody trusts.

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Mar 5, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Data Platform Teams Are Becoming Product Teams

Nobody adopts a pipeline. They adopt a product. That's what most data teams still don't get.

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Feb 17, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

Data Product Operating Model

You wouldn't ship a software product without an owner, a roadmap, or a release process. Why do you treat your data differently?

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Feb 14, 2026 MVP to Platform

When to Actually Implement a Modern Data Stack (SME Edition)

You're paying EUR3K/month for a cloud warehouse. Your Postgres could've handled it.

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Jan 13, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

Data Consultancy vs Data Products - The Expensive Confusion

A data team that only consults will never scale. A data team that only builds will never be used.

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Dec 11, 2025 Organizational Dynamics

The Shadow IT Problem Nobody Admits

Shadow IT isn't a governance failure. It's a service failure.

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Oct 13, 2025 Organizational Dynamics

If your data product doesn't start with 'why,' it will en...

If your data product doesn't start with 'why,' it will end with 'disaster.'

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