Hence why I said DE need to be involved as early as possible. Aspirational sure, but that's what I've seen work the best and repeatably. It's the only scalable

Hence why I said DE need to be involved as early as possible. Aspirational sure, but that's what I've seen work the best and repeatably. It's the only scalable solution IMO otherwise you're perpetually playing catch-up. On the point about the govt I literally built a completely new contract type and civilian hiring practices for the DoD to bring in Data Engineers so they could do exactly what I describe to make your life easier.