This is What we Call the Service Trap for Data Teams
Oliver Hughes explains how data teams fall into service traps, leading to confusion and inefficiency, and offers solutions for better alignment with business goals.

Transcript
So here, the fill of the four, we call these traps, basically service traps. These are things which, as I said, we think, emphasize that parent child relationship and make the data team run to the the tune of the wider business. So the first one of those is drowning the business with information. The idea of the the data keep the business keeps asking for information on the data team, and the data team keep providing it, and that continual provision of the information without any recourse leads to confusion, operational bloat, and, fragmented understanding. As you can imagine, that very much goes against the principles of metric trees that we've been discussing in this series. So we'll come on to the how that can be a help with the the counterbalance.