I could not agree more with the adoption path failure. First hand, I’ve witnessed a sprint to cloud and a “modern” data stack with medallion structure. There was a ppt training and then a few weeks later… “go figure it out.”
Early adopters (aka your own experts!) who should help innovate early and become champions, in reality become distractors when adoption strategy is just an after thought….or even a thought at all.
I could not agree more with the adoption path failure. First hand, I’ve witnessed a sprint to cloud and a “modern” data stack with medallion structure. There was a ppt training and then a few weeks later… “go figure it out.”
Early adopters (aka your own experts!) who should help innovate early and become champions, in reality become distractors when adoption strategy is just an after thought….or even a thought at all.
at dlthub we regularly see users come and replace their homebaked "undocumented framework built by one guy" with standards the entire team can use.
I guess part of the lesson is to treat your data products, well, as data products, and consider the user and the "PMF"