Not Just Data is an easy-to-read management novel that describes the story of a team building and then evolving a continuous enterprise data pipeline. What is a continuous enterprise data pipeline, you ask? Let’s work toward a definition: Continuous enterprise data is up-to-date enterprise data that is available on an as-needed, when-needed basis, reflecting the changing needs of data consumers.…
This is my review of Shane Gibson‘s book, An Agile Data Guide to Information Product Canvas, published in May 2025. In short, this book is a valuable addition to any data practitioner’s bookshelf because it provides easy-to-consume advice about a valuable data requirements technique. Interestingly, this book offers several interesting dichotomies: Due to its focus on an artifact (information product…
English is a wonderfully robust language, providing significant wiggle room for how terms are applied. This is particularly true of “data driven” and “data informed”, both of which have been thrown around a lot over the past few years. This leads to the questions: How are they different? and When should you apply each one? Here are my thoughts. Both…
Data scientists claim that they spend 80% of their time cleansing data and the other 20% of their time complaining about cleansing data. There is clearly something wrong with this picture, but sadly my own experience can confirm that this seems to be true in practice. In this blog my goal is to explore why the need to perform data…
Agile Database Techniques overviews ways of working (WoW) and ways of thinking (WoT) that enable agile database development.
A fundamental assumption with data-driven decision making is that your decision makers are capable of doing so. That’s a huge assumption.
A data-driven enterprise is one in which decision makers seek, and then consider relevant data when making their decisions.
Whose needs will data privacy regulations explicitly focus on: Individuals, corporations, or states? This decision will have a significant impact on how our societies are shaped.