Data contracts at the cross-section of best practices
I see data contracts as being at the cross-section of best practices.
Data Platform
2024
Friction as a lever
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I mentioned yesterday how by using friction we can influence how users behave and how the business is organised.
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.
A self-serve data platform
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A self-serve data platform is one where its users can autonomously create, manage and consume data.
What is a data platform?
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A data platform is one of those terms that can have a different meaning for different people.
It's a transformation
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The change of focus from accessibility to dependability is a business transformation, and like any transformation it is going to take some time.
Data teams evolve to focus on dependability
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Yesterday I wrote how data teams often start with accessibility, which helps you get started, but leads to a number of problems:
Data contracts for automation
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One of the benefits of data contracts is the amount of automation they unlock.
Centralised vs Decentralised - there and back again
How many times has your data team gone from centralised, to decentralised, and back to centralised again?
Your success is determined by your communication
More than anything else, your success is determined by your communication.
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