There are 3 strategic / macro data use cases

There are 3 strategic / macro data use cases

I often ask which of these three macro data use cases the Organisations believed were its priorities to achieve their business strategy:

Providing data to Customers
Supporting Internal Processes
Providing data to External Organisations

Each of these three strategic / macro data use cases come with specific data architectures, data work and also impact the context of how you would design your agile data ways of working.

Building the Data Plane while flying it

Building the Data Plane while flying it

In the data domain you typically have to balance between building the right thing and building the thing right.

The days of being able to spend 6 months or a year on “Sprint Zero” creating your data platform have gone.

One team I worked with called it “building the airplane as you fly it”

Here are 5 patterns I have seen data teams adopt to help them do this.

2024 the year of the Intelligent Data Platform

2024 the year of the Intelligent Data Platform

AI was the buzzword for 2023 and it will continue to be the buzzword for 2024.

I have been thinking about our approach to AI in our product for a while and landed on 3 patterns that I use as a reference.

Ask AI
Assisted AI
Automated AI
Adopting these patterns moves a data platform from being a manual data platform, towards a data platform that can do some of the data work for you.

An Intelligent Data Platform.