Focusing your data team on what matters most

To move a data team from reactive ticket-answering to strategic, decision-impacting work, focus on improving collaboration and communication with stakeholders. Encourage sharing of work through better processes and tools that facilitate feedback loops. Empower functional teams to explore their own intuitions and ask questions of the data by setting up "explore from here" types of playgrounds. Establish shared definitions for business concepts, using metric or semantic layers. Build a knowledge library for your organization by codifying insights gained by the data team. Finally, invest in the right tools that empower your data team to create, save, and share their work effectively.