Leadership Workshop – How to Enable Continuous Enterprise Data

Your organization wants an enterprise data ecosystem that enables better-informed, data-driven decision-making. You also want to operationalize effective artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline your workflow, better serve customers, and improve the bottom line. To accomplish these goals, you need continuous enterprise data.

This workshop overviews a proven, disciplined strategy for people who lead, govern, or work with teams tasked with delivering a continuous enterprise data pipeline. A continuous enterprise data pipeline delivers up-to-date, high-quality data from across the organization to the right data consumers on an as-needed, when-needed basis, while reflecting their changing needs in a timely manner.

The first part of the workshop comprises an interactive discussion about the need for continuous enterprise data and the strategic and tactical challenges around delivering it.  The second part is tailored 100% to the workshop participants’ unique needs. We identify the topics that you want to learn about, identify the most pressing ones, and work through how to address them in your context.

 

What You Will Learn in How to Enable Continuous Enterprise Data

    • Discover the challenges enterprise data pipeline initiatives face.
    • Learn a hybrid, continuous delivery strategy.
    • Discover non-invasive governance strategies to oversee and enable such initiatives.
    • Understand the importance of stakeholders being actively and regularly involved with the team.

Logistics

    • Length: 3 hours (half day) or 6 hours (full day) (exclusive of breaks)
    • Delivery strategy: On premises

Audience

This workshop is designed for people who:

    • Lead a continuous enterprise data team
    • Sponsor, support, or work with a continuous enterprise data team
    • Govern a continuous enterprise data team

 

Prerequisites

    • An understanding of Agile and Lean concepts.
    • An understanding of your organization’s enterprise data strategy, or at least your hopes for one.

Detailed Outline of How to Enable Continuous Enterprise Data

Overview Lecture (one hour, morning)

      • Key terminology
      • Explore common challenges faced by enterprise data teams
      • How continuous enterprise data teams work
      • Why you may start as a project, but evolve to a product team
      • An agile project lifecycle
      • A lean continuous delivery lifecycle
      • Governing a continuous enterprise data initiative
      • The need for active stakeholder involvement

Tailored Discussion (two hours, morning)

      • Identify and prioritize the topics that you need addressed
      • Explore these topics in a free-form, “chalk-talk” manner

Optional: Tailored Consulting Session (three hours, afternoon)

      • This optional, although highly recommended, portion of the workshop is tailored to your needs.
      • Optional topics that you can choose from include:
        • Strategy discussion for the initiation and high-level planning of a continuous enterprise data initiative.
        • Strategy discussion to get an enterprise data initiative back on track.
        • “Office hours” session with an enterprise data team to discuss how to improve their way of working (WoW).
        • I’m always open to suggestions for other ways I can help you.

Do You Want How to Enable Continuous Enterprise Data Delivered In Your Organization?

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