Roadmap to Data Maturity How to become a data-driven organization

My Dream Data Organization

3 Hire Data Scientists until it works!

4 The Wild West Everybody is an admin Fast deployment Manual work Test in production Sell yourself in trouble It works on my pc Dead by DevOps Minimal permissions Never touch production Multiple rounds of testing Everything as code Monitor every movement Encryption and masking policies

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Data is central to business Data is NOT a cost Well-defined KPI's Strong CIO, CTO, CDO Clear business domains Business Strategy ✔ Documented strategy ✔ Holistic budget (not just license costs)

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Create data products Data infrastructure Delivering insights Automating with data Data security and access Data Roles ✔ Monitoring and audit ✔ Data leaders

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Popular tool stack SQL as lingua franca Focus on robustness Automated testing Version control Way of working ✔ Clear ownership ✔ Containers and environments

✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Custom-made training Video documentation Certify to keep your license Internal user groups Wiki or Slack Upskilling ✔ No-consequence sandboxes ✔ Code reviews

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