Leadership | Thomas Nys | The Fractional Data Architect

Data team operating model - escaping the internal consultancy trap

Data Consultancy vs Data Products - The Expensive Confusion

Technical debt maintenance costs - strategies to reduce 40% engineering overhead

3 Ways to Escape the 40% Maintenance Trap

Dashboard trust problems - why data definition gaps kill executive adoption

The Dashboard Nobody Trusted

Data quality ownership crisis - why 77% rate quality average or worse

Data Quality Crisis - 77% Admit Failure

Continuous refactoring strategy - building cleanup into daily delivery routines

Refactoring Without Stopping Delivery

Strategy debt in data teams - roadmaps without direction become task lists

Strategy Debt: When Your Roadmap Has No North Star

Hero developer system design - when organizational structure creates bottlenecks

Dear Alex - You're Not the Problem, the System Is

Genius developer risk pattern - when your best engineer becomes your biggest liability

The Genius Developer Anti-Pattern

Architecture silver bullets myth - why simple solutions fail complex systems

Silver bullets sell because uncertainty is uncomfortable