Value is subjective
Based on the time, location, and context an activity or outcome could be immensely valuable or worthless.
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One team will dedicate two data engineers to managing and fine-tuning the performance of a data pipeline for months.
Another team ignores pipeline run times and is only focused on integrating new data sources.
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Company A will spend $500,000 to hire a team of consultants to move off their on-prem database and into the cloud.
Company B won’t even entertain proposals to migrate from their on-prem solutions. They see it as part of their strategic advantage.
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One CEO views her executive dashboard every morning when she sits down and every evening before she leaves her desk. The numbers are updated hourly and she basing her next strategic move on a couple of key metrics.
Another CEO never views the executive dashboard. He expressed excitement and praise to the team when he first received it. But usage metrics show it’s been months since he opened it.
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Is it valuable to have high-performing pipelines?
To move to the cloud?
To have an executive dashboard?
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Value is derived from priorities, perceived risk, perceived opportunity, established strategy, and hundreds of other factors.
So how can you know what’s valuable at your company?
Don’t listen to LinkedIn trends or tech conferences.
Talk with your business teams.
Watch their workflows.
Adopt their goals.
They will tell you - with their words and actions - what’s valuable to them.
Sawyer
from The Data Shop
