Find out how your remote data team can 4x its productivity with scrum If you’re here, I’m hoping you’ve read my previous article on the toughest challenges that remote data team leaders faced with agile. Now let’s roll up our sleeves and dive right into the solutions. Like I mentioned in the previous post, our co-founders and I were on…
From collaboration and dependencies to productivity, find out what are the top challenges that remote data team leaders face with agile. Raise your hand if you’ve ever planned a data project. 🤚 You, my friend, deserve a standing ovation. Because you know how difficult, complex and frustrating it can be. You have to: Work with your data engineers to extract…
Understand the DataOps principles, framework and learn how to implement DataOps within your organization Let’s start with a simple definition of DataOps (aka data operations). DataOps is a data management framework that borrows from the agile methodology, lean manufacturing and DevOps to democratize data, build trust and improve team collaboration. What is DataOps? Sounds quite straightforward, right? If only it were…
Learn about the definition and meaning of metadata, including how to best manage it (spoiler: it has everything to do with a metadata catalog). Let’s get meta about meta—because context and perspective is everything. First things first, what is metadata? At the metalevel, the easiest way to understand metadata or its meaning is that it is simply information or data…
Learn what data silos are (definition); why they pose the biggest challenge to your big data strategy, pipelines and dreams; and how to break them down. First things first, if you’re searching for articles on the topic “data silos” and what they mean, congratulations—you’ve almost attained the state of self-realization.🧘🏽 Why? Because let’s face it—one of the biggest challenges facing…
Understand what data quality means and how data quality management can solve your bad data woes How is your data? If that very question makes you cringe, then you’ve come to the right place. No one wakes up in the morning thinking “Yay, I get to work with bad quality data today!” Sadly, that’s the way things are in many…
First, if you’re a human of data – aka someone who works with data for a living – here’s your virtual medal. 🏅🏅🏅 Why? Because we know how frustrating it can be to manage data and all its appendages, from metadata to data lineage and beyond! Now we know we can’t wave a magic wand and wish it all away…
Here’s the definition of a data catalog and why a data catalog could be just the thing you need to meet the challenges of data and metadata management and collaboration. Let’s understand the definition, use cases and value of a modern data catalog with a small story— Two data scientists walk into a library at the end of a long…