Context Before Technology
In a data driven world, rushing into technology solutions and builds without a clear understanding of business context sets organizations up for failure. Business leaders in an organization will roll their eyes at such a trivial statement, but the reality of many technology projects is that they are driven by teams who may lack that full understanding. The pressure to build someething new, or re-engineer existing systems results in an engineering team drawn to get get hands on keys as quickly as possible. After all, in an agile world, we can always go back and re-engineer our choices later, right? Wrong. The cost of re-engineering is high, and the cost of re-engineering a system that was never fit for purpose is even higher. In truth once a project is one or two months into the build process, key design and architectural decisions are effectively locked in without a major reset and lost time.
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At DataContext, we ensure our clients don't fall into this trap by bringing a data-first approach to the design and architecting of systems. With a time constrained planning period ahead of major build decisions, we ensure the key building blocks of any system are appropriately architected, and organize the planning process to ensure that critical decisions are made at the right stage of development. In addition to delivering a data architecture, we provide support as required in the detailed planning and project execution phases, including critical data quality testing to ensure outcomes meet stated goals.
Our Services
Data Designer
Our Data Designer service provides a structured approach to identifying key data design elements of a technology project, and their implications for technology choices and architecture. A large part of data design can be supported with a generic framework that can be customized to the specific business context. We work with key business stakeholders to ensure commercial goals are reflected in the underlying design. We also bring our own industry expertise in certain sectors to deliver high quality designs while reducing the drain of time on the business.
Project Planning and Delivery
We provide project planning and delivery management to teams as required. A typical engagement is a partnership with project team leaders or scrum masters where we provide significant up front contributions to the planning process and early execution steps. As the delivery team builds the data expertise required to be more self sufficient, we step back into a more advisory role to ensure design goals are achieved while minimizing ongoing costs to the company.
Data Quality Management
Data quality testing and ongoing assessment is critical to future success. A well structured quality test does more than just checking the inputs and outputs for a sample of data, but also identifies the key hidden checkpoints where errors might accrue and that provide early indicators of a problem. We assist testing teams in formulating test plans during the delivery phase and designing ongoing quality checks that allow operations teams to monitor the data quality performance of the system on an ongoing basis.
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