Leadership
17 posts filed under Leadership.
Series B Hiring Role Matrix
Half the "Head of Data" searches I see are two different jobs wearing one title.
Read →Leadership Debt Compounds
Tech debt gets a backlog and a budget. Leadership debt gets a shrug, and it compounds faster.
Read →Leadership Bottleneck In Stacks
The 2026 data tooling is the best it's ever been. The bottleneck in most teams I see is still a leader who can't say, in two sentences, what …
Read →Westrum Culture In Data Teams
If your post-mortems start with "who shipped that," your org culture is the bug.
Read →Brent Is Your Data Engineer (Phoenix Project applied)
Every data team has a Brent. The person every ticket eventually routes through.
Read →The Day Our Pipeline Became a Person's Full-Time Job
The day I realized our pipeline had become a person's full-time job.
Read →AI Worry Gap - Engineers vs Executives
Executives see AI as opportunity. Engineers see it as threat. Neither is talking to the other about it.
Read →Managers Overseeing 3X More People Than 2017
The average data team manager is overseeing nearly 3X more people than in 2017. Something has to give.
Read →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.
Read →3 Ways to Escape the 40% Maintenance Trap
Your engineers spend 40% on maintenance. Here's how to get half of that back.
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