Where growth hits you

You are growing.

Congrats!

Pop a bottle. Light a cigar. Or pour yourself a glass of milk.

When you’ve savored the moment a little bit, you will come to terms with how growth is straining, stressing, or cracking your data team.

Here are four ways growth knocks your data team off balance:

• As business units grow the demand for analytics, reporting, and data will grow. Developing a mature business intelligence plan will help your team scale the insights and data products you can deliver.

• New business divisions and software platforms mean new data sources. ETL processes that can scale to integrate with new systems rapidly will quickly determine whether your data team is drowning to thriving.

• When a production pipeline fails more people notice. Downtime becomes more costly as more people become more dependent on your data. Having change control and DevOps processes established can minimize downtime.

• The team that got you here may not get you there. The number of seats and arrangement of the chairs changes when rapid growth hits. Determining how talent and team will adapt to growth is crucial.

You might be moving so fast you don’t see these things. Until you hear (or read) them out loud.

If that feels familiar.

If you need a sounding board,

someone to vent with,

or a glass of milk.

It’s good to be back,

Sawyer