UNPHAT - these are great, but I'd add one more - ask yourself if you're an engineer before making a technology choice. The number of projects I've had where th

UNPHAT - these are great, but I'd add one more - ask yourself if you're an engineer before making a technology choice. The number of projects I've had where the team has had one arm tied behind their back because they "have" to use Hadoop or NiFi or Lambdas or something else a manager is determined is the thing everyone's using is just lunacy. They're all tools which have their place, but you really have to know them to know when to use them. And as importantly when not to. I mostly do consulting gigs where projects are 6 weeks to 6 months long and it's been years since I've seen that not hamper a team.