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A very good article, but I think that there is a missing concept - which is organisational maturity. In a fully mature data driven organisation (like... errm Go
by sgt101 8y ago
A very good article, but I think that there is a missing concept - which is organisational maturity. In a fully mature data driven organisation (like... errm Google I guess - reading Jeff Deans papers anyway) there is a well developed data fabric, polished processes for providing credentials and authority, right sized resourcing pools and also substantial diversity of specialisation coupled with experience and domain insight. Specialists can flourish and deliver value out of proportion to their costs. In other, less developed, organisations there's no chance this will happen and specialists will be left floundering looking for the setting in which they can do their thang.
- zwieback 8y ago> A very good article, but I think that there is a missing concept - which is organisational maturity. Maturity and also scale - I suppose a small or even one-man shop requiring a generalist could be mature. Once you get to a certain size specialization happens automatically.
- sgt101 8y agoI agree that a one man shop can be "mature"; but there are many very large scale operations that have cultures that absolutely preclude speciality.