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2024 the year of the Intelligent Data Platform

AI was the buzzword for 2023 and it will continue to be the buzzword for 2024.

I have been thinking about our approach to AI in our product for a while and landed on 3 patterns that I use as a reference.

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Adopting these patterns moves a data platform from being a manual data platform, towards a data platform that can do some of the data work for you.

An Intelligent Data Platform.

The 3 patterns of AgileData AI

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Having AI embedded in your product have become table stakes it seems.

I have been thinking about our approach to AI in our product for a while and landed on 3 patterns that I use as a reference.

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Iterations create milestone dates, milestone dates force trade off decisions to be made

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Data teams struggle to not “boil the ocean” when doing data work.

Use milestones as a pattern to help the data team to focus on what really needs to be built and manage the trade-off decisions for what doesn’t.

Your data team are mercenaries, define your ways of working based on this

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Modern data teams are transient, often staying less than 5 years, unlike past decades of long-term loyalty.

Companies should adapt by defining robust Ways of Working (WoW) that endure beyond individual tenures.

Balancing in-house teams with reliable data vendors for continuity and efficiency may also be a useful pattern as part of your WoW.

Most of your data is rotten and it’s not your fault, but it is your problem

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Data quality is an expectation, not an exception.

While data quality is crucial, it’s not always directly our fault when issues arise, nevertheless, it remains our problem to solve.

Data Contracts are one pattern that can help us solve this problem.

Are you delivering drills, holes or outcomes?

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TD:LR Whether you're a Data Entrepreneur or an organisation looking for actionable insights, its the business outcome these insights help you achieve that is the most important thing. Yes you need a data platform and...

The Hitchhikers guide to the Information Product Canvas

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TD:LR In mid 2023 I was lucky enough to present at The Knowledge Gap on the Information Product Canvas. Watch The Information Product Canvas, is an innovative pattern designed to capture data requirements visually and...

Data Consulting Patterns with Joe Reis

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Dive into the world of data consulting with Shane Gibson and Joe Reis on the Agile Data Podcast. Explore their journey from traditional employment to successful data consulting, covering client acquisition, business models, financial management, reputation, sales strategies, employee management, and work-life balance.

5E’s

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As Data Consultants your customers are buying and outcome based on one of these patterns – effort, expertise, experience or efficiency.

We outline what each of these are, how they are different to each other and how to charge for delivering them.

Agile-tecture Information Factory

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Defining a Data Architecture is a key pattern when working in the data domain.

Its always tempting to boil the ocean when defining yours, don’t!

And once you have defined your data architecture, find a way to articulate and share it with simplicity.

Here is how we articulate the AgileData Data Agile-tecture.

I can write a bit of code faster

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TD:LR To get data tasks done involves a lot more than just bashing out a few lines of code to get the data into a format that you can give it to your stakeholder/customer. Unless of course it really is a one off and...