Your data team is slow.
Your data team is slow.
And it’s damaging your organization in many ways.
Here are some of the things that happen:
The users are left waiting…and waiting.
Your team members are bored and frustrated
The leadership is rolling the dice on decisions without good information.
The best people on the data team are scrolling job boards looking for a role with more life.
Someone from the business who “knows some Python” pulls together their own info to get what they need without waiting.
A solution held together with duct tape and chewing games makes it into the hands of the execs.
No one can reproduce the “duct tape” solution.
Bugs in the data product show up….and take out a 30-year mortgage while you try to deploy a fix.
That business team keeps skipping the requirements gathering meetings you schedule.
They stop asking the data teams for new stuff because it will be “2-4 weeks”
The last three things the data team delivered haven’t been used.
Trust between (and within) teams evaporates.
Any of that sound familiar?
Your data team isn’t a lost cause. They are just lost in their own culture, processes, and disappointment.
It’s not a technology problem. It’s people and process.
As a leader, it’s your job to
Establish strategic direction about what is a valuable outcome.
Identify bottlenecks in the process.
Own where mistakes have been made in the past.
Take an incremental step towards something new.
That’s hard from inside the tornado. Outside eyes can help.
Call a friend, mentor, or coach.
Tomorrow’s a new day.
I’m glad you are here,
Sawyer
from The Data Shop
