tgroenwals shared this post · Apr 17
Sebastian Hewing

I’ve audited 100+ data teams.

Most of them had the same problems:

→ Backlogs full of “quick questions”
→ Dashboards nobody really trusts
→ Stakeholders exporting to Excel anyway

Many teams think that these are the reasons:

  • “Wrong tools.”
  • “Data-illiterate stakeholders.”
  • “Not enough people.”
  • “Lack of data culture.”

They usually aren't.

The main root cause for their problems?

They either over-optimize for control:

  • Perfect models
  • Heavy governance
  • Centralized everything

Or they over-optimize for agility:

  • Everyone building their own logic
  • Metrics drifting apart
  • Zero trust in numbers

I've been on both sides and it took me 6 years to get this right:

Today, I'm very intentional about where to standardize
…and where to move fast.

That’s the difference between a team that ships dashboards
and a team that drives decisions.

Most teams aren’t broken.

They just do too much of the right thing at the wrong time.

That’s why I created a simple, free self-audit.

So you can quickly see:

  • Where are you over-controlling?
  • Where are you under-governing?
  • And why your team feels stuck.

Want to see where your team is stuck and what to fix first?

👉 Get your free self audit here: https://lnkd.in/geUZDrv8

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Daniel Cavanagh Must be accurate archers in the promised land Apr 16 1 like
Sivasankar Natarajan Great insights here Sebastian! Many teams get stuck in the cycle of trying to perfect everything, but this approach to knowing when to move fast and when to slow down really resonates. Apr 16 1 like