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Key Concepts

Team Hiring Concepts

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1. <<< data warehouse design team reorganized 3 times with new personnel
2. <<< data warehouse team had good business but not strong data architecture skills
3. <<< after 3 reorgs, the data model came out 6 weeks late
4. <<< the data warehouse team shared little until done
5. <<< my data services team was fully dependent on the data model
6. <<< the warehouse data model delivered was unusable
7. <<< the data services team had to engineer a working, useful data model for services
8. <<< we communicated weekly to the CIO our dependencies, the expected impacts of delays, bad design
9. <<< we weren't allowed to add resources or budget to our team
10. <<< our team overcame severe family problems to stay focused on delivery
11. <<< CIO made faces and said we needed to make the original deadline without added resources
12. <<< we delivered the data services to go to production 6 weeks late as well
13. <<< we failed to make up the lost time from the warehouse team
14. <<< key - we failed expectations and there were consequences for the team
15. <<< we created both useful data services that were accurate and a usable data model
16. <<< the business did use the new data lake and it became the core for all internal and client solutions as the source of truth

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Process to move forward after a missed key project milestone

1. Own the problems first then your team's responsibilities and support clearly.

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1. Communicate clearly, directly, immediately with all stakeholder groups.

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1. Agree on the core team to lead analysis and solution definition going forward.

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1. Identify problems, missed expectations, consequences.

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1. Research together root causes for failures, missed opportunities.

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1. Collaborate with stakeholders on options, best strategy forward to get the consensus and commitment for success in the next stage.

Candidate Solutions

Step-by-step guide for Example

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