🧨 And Now, Data Preboarding Disasters
Stories from the field. Bad stories!
We all know bringing data into the enterprise from data partners that you don't control is hard. Monday mornings you yearn for green lights across the pipeline status board. Sometimes you get them. On those other days, how about a hot mug of it-all-happens-to-everyone-else-too?
Over the next few weeks I'm going to tell real, though slightly anonymized, stories of data partnerships in jeopardy, data operations on fire, and spend control out the window. Basically, just plain DataOps breaking bad in the absence of solid data preboarding. Why is this helpful? Well, schadenfreude, a bit. But mainly to show how you're not in it alone. And that better data preboarding can make a difference in making the ouch stop.
These thumbnail stories are all true, unexaggerated, and accurately told, though names, data domains, and products have been changed to protect confidentiality. They are not intended to push the envelope -- bigger disasters for sure happen!
These modest problem cases just happen to be handy and photogenic. They are a few of the reasons CsvPath Framework, its implementation of the Collect Store Validate Publish architecture, and FlightPath were born. I hope you will see how the stories made the tools what they are and the tools address the needs the stories illustrate.
And I hope you enjoy the tales. And I really hope your Monday gets better! ☕
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