Shoutout

The other day I talked about the flavors of data teams.

Scrappy teams, legacy teams, and cloud-native teams. One thing that became clear in the replies from you, is two of those team types get a lot of attention (for different reasons) and the third is often ignored.

The cloud-native team attracts the attention and affection of the sales teams at AWS, GPCP, or Azure. With a dedicated account team standing by always available to help you increase your cloud consumption.

The legacy teams attract the attention of IT implementation firms. There is a lot of work in medium and large migrations and that is where most consulting firms make their money. Years-long projects costing 6 and 7 figures.

But the scrappy team is mostly ignored. There’s no big cloud spending potential. There’s no multi-year migration project requiring a team of consultants.

They are a forgotten fringe of data teams. However, the majority of company data teams resemble the scrappy team.

Detailed and up-close understanding of the size, shape, meaning, and anomalies within their data. Detailed and up-close encounters with the business teams they serve.

This is a shoutout to the scrappy data teams out there.

While ignored by most of the industry, I’m a big fan of your efforts.

You are seen.

And I’m glad you are here.

Sawyer

from The Data Shop