Opportunities for the Modern Data Stack
The modern data stack (MDS) is the defining paradigm informing how new organizations use technology to leverage data. Lots of digital ink has
…Category: Management
In the past few years, much has been written about problems like discoverability, observability, data quality, and the need for data teams to become more “engineering oriented” in their mindset.
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Data teams aim to help the people in their organization make better decisions. Many data teams aren’t doing this as well as they could and are missing out on a
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In part 2 of this series, we learned that every new initiative a team undertakes should be accompanied by an expectation on how the initiative will perform. For example,
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The MBR meeting is the focal point of the MBR program. Here you will publicly interrogate KPIs, align on action items and hold people accountable. There are typically
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Getting regular feedback from your organization can help the data team to prioritize the work that will have the biggest impact on your stakeholders. However, it’s hard to turn ad-hoc
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KPIs are central to the business review program since they provide a way to reason about the success or failure of an initiative. Core to the success of a
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It’s becoming more and more clearly recognized that the promises of the machine-learning revolution, at least for your average non-big-tech company, are not delivering the value that many had hoped
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