The problem is with scale comes complexity A team of one is the most efficient team to get data work done, but only if that one person is an expert in every step of that data work and has enough time to complete all the work on their own. …

Multitasking is the problem, we should focus on one thing at a time Data teams should only work on one thing at a time, but the problem is they often don’t know what the most important thing is. Stakeholders know the business outcomes they need to achieve, but they often believe that multiple outcomes need to be delivered at the same time to…

It is a problem of understanding who we are trying to serve Without understanding who we are developing data or information for, we cannot focus on ensuring we deliver it in the way they need or prefer. The concept of a Persona A persona is a model of a fictional character that represents a user or customer. Personas are based on research about the target users or…

The need for benefit statements An AgileData Way of Working provides a number of benefits to both the team who are working that way and to the stakeholders who receive the Information Products the teams deliver. Ideally the team are empowered to work this way from day one and do not need to provide any…

Its a problem of boiling the ocean, overlapping boundaries and a lack of a shared language Data in an organisation is often broad, complex and full of uncertainty. One of the many data management challenges it brings is how to break large problems down into smaller problems we can work on. We have complexity in the number of Systems of Capture we have to collect data…

Amazon Future Press Release The Amazon Future Press Release is a template that is used to describe the desired customer experience for a new product or service as if it has already been launched, but before it has started being developed. It is based on the broader concept of the…

It’s a problem of what we have been taught, what we have learnt and how we think When my generation went to school we were taught based on a mindset aligned with the industrial revolution. We were taught based on hierarchies, the teachers and principals were at the top, we were at the bottom, we were subservient. We were taught how to do a task, told what…

It is a silo problem When we structure our teams based on roles not skills we strike a bunch of problems that are related to the anti-patterns roles seem to invoke. Team members will perform the data tasks to be done as part of their role and then hand the work to the next role…

Just shut up and let me code, alright One thing we have known for a long time is developers/engineers love to code. It is what they have trained for, it is what they do all day, it is what they enjoy doing all day and it is also what they are good at. For some it is about…