🔥 Building Synq (https://t.co/TG5eoDR0Jg) for teams that own business-critical data
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In this blog post, @mikldd looked into five steps you can take to make sure you’re well-positioned and aligned to business value if you work in a data role: buff.ly/47rJrTs
2024: The year of the value-driven data person - Growth at all costs has been replaced with a need to operate efficiently and be ROI-driven–data teams are no exception by @miklddbuff.ly/47rJrTs
“We are spending $50,000 per day on Facebook marketing and one of our upstream pipelines was not syncing for 3 days causing us to waste half of our budget. We had no idea this was happening until they notified us” - 250 people eCommerce company
synq.io/blog/hidden-co…
The data alerting workflow is hard to manage at scale. Here's a post about the challenges many teams face and an example of a better solution
synq.io/blog/data-aler…
I’ve had to solve more data issues than I can count. Some have been minor issues that didn’t have any material business impact, and others have meant that I had to drop everything to fix a critical issue.
Guide for designing severity levels in data 👇
synq.io/blog/designing…
When I speak with data leaders, one common question I hear is "what % of headcount should be in data roles"
👉 The data from from 100 scaleups suggests it is in the 1-5% range.
I've written about that on the new shiny Synq blog - synq.io/blog/data-team…
Some of the best hires I’ve made have been people elsewhere in the company who’ve wanted to move to a data role. But it's not always easy!
→ Practical tips for creating success with people outside the data team
→ Common pitfalls to look out for
mikkeldengsoe.substack.com/p/purple-peopl…
New post: The Difficult Life of the Data Lead
* Why balancing managing a team with demanding stakeholders and still being hands-on is no easy task
* What can we learn from Engineering Managers
* What can stakeholders do differently
mikkeldengsoe.substack.com/p/the-difficul…
In any data team there are almost always a few people who keep the wheels spinning and are the go-to people when things are about to go really bad.
These people are invaluable to companies but often end up doing too much of the mundane and urgent work.
mikkeldengsoe.substack.com/p/data-hero
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