Data Team
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Ben Rogojan: Data teams bear primary responsibility for bridging business communication gaps
“I think in general, I found that if you're the data team, you're going to probably have to do a little more of the lift just because it's, Maybe a little easier for you to make that leap.”
Rogojan: Data teams get trampled by fickle business demands without strong leaders
“If you don't have a strong data leader that can either push back or make sure that you're doing things in a way that makes sense you kind of can get trampled by the business side and what they need and their kind of fickle nature where it's like, okay, now we'…”
Lachs: Data teams earn their influence by surfacing proactive business opportunities
“We get the seat at the table and we need to earn it by bringing opportunities that we all can go and go after.”
Kubernetes Works for Backend Teams but Fails Data Teams
“Like in particular, like Kubernetes, I feel like it's like kind of worked okay for backend teams, but not so well for data teams.”
Verna: Hiring a growth team before establishing data infrastructure is a mistake
“Not having data team ready for growth team. So hiring growth teaming before you have data analysts or data literacy in your company before you're data informed or hiring growth and not attaching any data analysts into their for you. Because if you do that, wha…”
Marketing data teams succeed under either centralized or embedded models
“Whether the data team is part of the marketing team or a centralized team, both, I've seen both work wonderfully, but make sure that their input is what everyone in the marketing team is using.”
Elena Verna: Growth hires fail without pre-existing data infrastructure and analysts
“I'll tell you number one mistake, not having data team ready for growth team. So hiring growth team even before you have data analysts or data literacy in your company before you were data informed or hiring growth and not attaching any data analysts into thei…”
Alströmer: Airbnb Measures Data Team on Experimentation Tool Adoption
“At Airbnb, really the entire product team is now a growth team, and the goal of the data team that have built these tools is to get everybody to use them. Like, they're, Literally measured by how many people using experimentation frameworks.”
Douetteau: Effective data teams must bridge visual interfaces and programming
“In my perspective, well, whatever happens today, you must be able to make the two mindsets coexist, meaning when you work with computers today, you have people which are more into the coding kind of mode, meaning a textual interaction with computers, and peopl…”
Douetteau: Data teams must include or work closely with product managers
“So, in my perspective, in order to do that, a data team must be kind of close to the product team, meaning he really needs to have either someone with a product management mindset, either in the team or very, very close to the team, because any significant dat…”