Summary of Don't Lead A Data Team Before Watching This - 5 Lessons You Need To Know As A Head of Data
The video discusses the challenges faced by data engineers, analysts, and scientists who transition into leadership roles without proper coaching. The main points covered are:
- The business doesn't care about technology, focus on outcomes and high-level understanding.
- Use common vernacular and avoid getting too technical when communicating with non-data team members.
- Be intentional with roles, data analysts focus on analysis while data engineers build core data layers.
- data quality is crucial, bad data quality can lead to costly errors and loss of trust.
- Less is more, focus on building fewer high-quality pipelines and dashboards.
- Simplify infrastructure and tools to make maintenance easier and deliver value more effectively.
- Understand the business to provide strategic value beyond technical skills.
Presenters or sources
- Heathan Erand
- Jeff DEC
- J re author of fundamental OFA engineering
Notable Quotes
— 03:07 — « Ive seen people who spent way too much time uh doing what I like to call infrastructure for infrastructure sake, test out solution after solution after solution and never really deliver. »
— 03:30 — « The simpler your infrastructure, easier to maintain. »
— 05:19 — « Data analysts for example are generally focused on building things that are like analysis, you know doing some research building dashboards things that have like some final point and its usually a single final point. »
— 08:51 — « Less is more, sometimes it feels like the goal is to build thousands of data pipelines and thousands of dashboards but I do think there is this balance where you should spend time trying to figure out hey how many things should we actually build how many things can we maintain. »
Category
Business and Finance