Communication

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 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.

More than anything else, your success is determined by your communication.

The bystander effect is a social phenomenon where individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present.

Think of the processes you have in place.

We’re very lucky these days that it’s so easy to connect with people around the world to collaborate and share ideas.

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).