When was the last time you ran outside when you heard a car alarm? I remember once driving an old, heavy, muffler-challenged vehicle through a parking garage and setting off every car alarm in my wake. They made a lot Read more
The primary goals of beekeeping are straightforward. Make sure they have enough space. Make sure they have enough food and water. Control nasty bugs. And get them through the winter. Hives that make it through the winter are the most Read more
Do you gravitate toward the most difficult problems? Do you seek out the most interesting and impactful challenges? If so, then 6 Secrets for Delivering Impossible Projects will give you the tools to successfully deliver your own Impossible Projects On Read more
Data Value. OK. Hot topic. I’d be remiss if I didn’t say something about how data is the new oil or the new bacon or the new hot fudge lava cake with hand-churned vanilla bean ice cream drizzled with chocolate Read more
What’s not to love about a good enterprise analytical data consolidation project? You can just see the PowerPoint slide, can’t you? On the left, boxes like stars in a clear night sky, each representing some number of analytical repositories or Read more
Part 1 of this Data Product Architecture series covered the “where” of Data Product data implementation: federated or consolidated or some combination of the two. Here in Part 2, we’ll get into the “how” of Data Product data implementation: virtual Read more
Awesome! You’re moving forward with a modern analytics architecture built upon Data Products. Maybe you’re going to implement a Data Mesh and/or Data Fabric. Maybe you’re just looking to make your enterprise analytics more scalable and sustainable. Whatever the reason, Read more
Through the years I’ve done several surveys. Sometimes it’s collecting business value. Sometimes it’s connecting talent and need. Sometimes it’s inventorying tools. Sometimes it’s understanding resource utilization patterns. Regardless the purpose or venue, I have a very strict rule that Read more
One Saturday afternoon in the late-1970s, I was watching the Pittsburgh Pirates on the MLB Game of the Week. Partway through the game, rain started falling at the stadium. Umbrellas sprouted in the stands, but play continued, the players seemingly Read more
I hate paying more than I have to for something. And I really hate paying interest, whether it’s on a credit card … or a loan … or Data Debt. Data Debt is the accumulation of unresolved data-related issues and Read more