Make the impact visible
Following on from yesterdays post, perhaps the key point is to make the impact of data issues visible.
Communication
2024
Reversing Conway's Law
Yesterday I wrote about Conway’s law and the challenges it causes in organisations where data teams are placed in a separate part of the organisation to where the data is generated.
Conway's law and data
Conway’s law asserts that the designs of systems are influenced by an organisation’s communication structure, suggesting that how teams are organised and communicate will reflect in the final product.
Your success is determined by your communication
More than anything else, your success is determined by your communication.
The bystander effect
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The bystander effect is a social phenomenon where individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present.
Don't let people plug the gaps in your processes
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Think of the processes you have in place.
An idea becomes an idea when shared with someone else
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We’re very lucky these days that it’s so easy to connect with people around the world to collaborate and share ideas.
2023
Know your audience
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After mentioning the title of my talk for apidays in Paris was “Data Contracts: The API for Data”, I had a couple of responses saying that data contracts are not APIs, and that they’re for communication and facilitating an agreement between the generators and consumers of data (or something along those lines).
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