Despite claims to the contrary, dimensional modelling and star schemas are alive and well the in the modern data world. But whilst developers might have great technical skills and understand how to build a star schema, they may lack the business doma...

Most organisations aren't running on a greenfield modern data stack — they're running on legacy on-prem data systems, years of accumulated business logic, and pipelines that quietly power everything. The prevailing narrative says AI belongs to teams ...

If you're a data engineer, data platform engineer, or data architect, you know how difficult it is to build a truly self-serve data platform. In fact, data platforms are often organisational bottlenecks, preventing data publication, consumption, and ...

Here's an uncomfortable truth: the data team isn't coming to save you.

While requests sit in backlogs and transformation programmes promise future value, people across the business are already solving problems with the tools they have. They always h...

Ever struggled with lengthy, boring and confusing data requirement workshops that leave both your Stakeholders and your Data Team uncertain about what is needed and the next steps?

Imagine a Pattern Storming Workshop and Pattern Template that help g...

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Creating a greenfield data platform using AWS, Snowflake, and dbt is often framed as a technical exercise: pick the right tools, design the right architecture, and the rest follows. In practice, the hardest problems weren't in the pipelines at all.
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