The DataOps Revolution: Delivering the Data-Driven Enterprise

by Simon Trewin

Overview

DataOps is a new way of delivering data and analytics that is proven to get results. It enables IT and users to collaborate in the delivery of solutions that help organisations to embrace a data-driven culture. The DataOps Revolution: Delivering the Data-Driven Enterprise is a narrative about real world issues involved in using DataOps to make data-driven decisions in modern organisations. The book is built around real delivery examples based on the author’s own experience and lays out principles and a methodology for business success using DataOps. Presenting practical design patterns and DataOps approaches, the book shows how DataOps projects are run and presents the benefits of using DataOps to implement data solutions.

Best practices are introduced in this book through the telling of a story, which relates how a lead manager must find a way through complexity to turn an organisation around. This narrative vividly illustrates DataOps in action, enabling readers to incorporate best practices into everyday projects. The book tells the story of an embattled CIO who turns to a new and untested project manager charged with a wide remit to roll out DataOps techniques to an entire organisation. It illustrates a different approach to addressing the challenges in bridging the gap between IT and the business.

The approach presented in this story lines up to the six IMPACT pillars of the DataOps model that Kinaesis (www.kinaesis.com) has been using through its consultants to deliver successful projects and turn around failing deliveries. The pillars help to organise thinking and structure an approach to project delivery. The pillars are broken down and translated into steps that can be applied to real-world projects that can deliver satisfaction and fulfillment to customers and project team members.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032062969
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	08/06/2021
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Simon Trewin is an IT professional and entrepreneur who has had the privilege of working with many leading organizations in delivering data solutions for over 25 years. He has a passion for data and analytics that has led him to structuring the six IMPACT pillars of DataOps and is the founder of the DataOps Thinktank. He is a regular speaker and presenter at data conferences and has published many articles on LinkedIn and social media. Key successes in his career have come from helping organizations to accelerate their data delivery using a combination of tried and trusted solutions and new thinking to enable them to meet challenging deadlines and overcome complex problems.

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

Acknowledgements xi

About the Author xiii

Introduction xv

Why a Narrative Style of Writing? xvii

Background xvii

Part I Scoping and Defining

Chapter 1 Setting the Vision 2

Key Concepts 2

Closing Questions 17

Chapter 2 Setting the Target 18

Key Concepts 18

Closing Questions 28

Chapter 3 Understanding the Platform 30

Key Concepts 30

Closing Questions 40

Chapter 4 Getting Data Driven 42

Key Concepts 42

Closing Questions 49

Chapter 5 Controlled Empowerment 50

Key Concepts 50

Closing Questions 59

Chapter 6 Putting It All Together 60

Key Concepts 60

Closing Questions 71

Part II Delivering

Chapter 7 A Focus on Plans 74

Key Concepts 74

Closing Questions 86

Chapter 8 Setting Up the Framework 88

Key Concepts 88

Closing Questions 102

Chapter 9 Technology Choice 104

Key Concepts 104

Closing Questions 116

Chapter 10 Iterations, Building Momentum 118

Key Concepts 118

Closing Questions 134

Chapter 11 Embedding Governance 136

Key Concepts 136

Closing Questions 152

Chapter 12 DataOps Realised 154

Key Concepts 154

Closing Questions 160

Part III Appendix

Epilogue 162