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Until I read the second I was going to say to your first paragraph "then the company clearly doesn't value BI enough to warrant the existence of a BI team". It

Until I read the second I was going to say to your first paragraph "then the company clearly doesn't value BI enough to warrant the existence of a BI team". It's probably more a symptom of upper management valuing neither the core team nor the BI team, thinking software writes itself, and business insights come for free with the MBA. We're really in the same boat here. All the more reason for core team to make nice hooks for the BI team. They won't be appreciated by management, they probably won't be appreciated by the customers, but at least they can be appreciated by each other.

ttz 5y ago
In my experience (which doesn't mean I'm disagreeing with your experience), it's not that upper mgmt doesn't recognize the value of BI - they just don't want to invest in it. They want their cake without having to pay for it. It can be hard to find a place with mgmt that really understands that investing in developer velocity and good infrastructure pays way more dividends in the long term than constant short term "promise X, deliver X*0.8 to make customer think they got what they want, and repeat to get the contract". But yeah, we could complain on and on about all the problems of shortsighted management... it's a tale as old as time.