The last two articles in this series have focused on foundational principles for promoting data as a product, as opposed to simply declaring a product mindset without changing or challenging the status quo. Now it's time to get practical. Every product starts out as an idea. Successful products
My last article in this series focused on common attributes of a product in the marketplace and how data teams tend to not deliver on those attributes due to the pervasive mindsets found in organizations who place the data function under IT leadership. Before I published that article, I knew
What is a data product? There are no shortage of answers coming from the data management community, and most of them are shite. When you consider attributes of successful products in general, you'll quickly see that what passes for product in the data space rarely conforms. Let'
In my last article I laid out four foundational principles of my consulting business. The first and foremost is that the data function is a business function not under the control of your technology organization. The reason I've come to this conclusion is decades of observing behaviors that
Every day I scan my feed and find the same themes hashed over and over. What makes a successful data team? How to structure your data function based on headcount. Data management and data governance are different things. The one thing that I find in common with all of these
