Let’s get this part out of the way - I don’t have the right answer to build vs. buy. For some companies, building will make sense, for others, buying is…
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February 2023

First, it has been a while since I wrote. The reason for that is I don’t like to write unless I have ideas or something I feel is worth sharing. Over…
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November 2022

Every day I open the news, I see another layoff. In the last few days that has been OpenDoor, Stripe, Chime, not to mention hiring freezes across the…
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October 2022

“Data product” as a phrase is pretty abstract. It isn’t until we get down to the nuts and bolts that it is possible to say “oh yeah, I can see what you…
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September 2022

A cursory search of LinkedIn suggests there are tens of thousands of people, open roles and companies invested in data platforms. The concept of a data…
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The best part of applying a framework like data product internally at a company is that it helps create a way of thinking about data science investments…
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August 2022

I got a fascinating email a few weeks ago, the essence of which said “the reason all these data products don’t end up working is most don’t take…
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July 2022

“So is a data product just anything that has to do with data?” I didn’t get this question from anyone. Instead, it is something that I’ve been…
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June 2022

Today, I wanted to revisit an earlier article I wrote, and elaborate on what it means to to evolve a data product as personas (and organizational needs…
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May 2022

The Market for Data Product The number of “data product manager” roles available on LinkedIn has increased at least three-fold since I started writing…
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April 2022

“Data-driven” is such a passive phrase. Who the driver is matters a great deal. When you think data science, the image of models, algorithms and…
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March 2022

“Customers who use our product see a 10x increase in number of insights generated.” “The query time drops in half if you use our optimized system.” If…