In any data team there are almost always a few people who keep the wheels spinning and are the go-to people when things are about to go really bad. These people are invaluable to companies but often end up doing too much of the mundane and urgent work. mikkeldengsoe.substack.com/p/data-hero

New post: The Difficult Life of the Data Lead * Why balancing managing a team with demanding stakeholders and still being hands-on is no easy task * What can we learn from Engineering Managers * What can stakeholders do differently mikkeldengsoe.substack.com/p/the-difficul…

Some of the best hires I’ve made have been people elsewhere in the company who’ve wanted to move to a data role. But it's not always easy! → Practical tips for creating success with people outside the data team → Common pitfalls to look out for mikkeldengsoe.substack.com/p/purple-peopl…

When I speak with data leaders, one common question I hear is "what % of headcount should be in data roles" 👉 The data from from 100 scaleups suggests it is in the 1-5% range. I've written about that on the new shiny Synq blog - synq.io/blog/data-team…

New post about why fintech data teams have it uniquely hard - synq.io/blog/the-uniqu…

I’ve had to solve more data issues than I can count. Some have been minor issues that didn’t have any material business impact, and others have meant that I had to drop everything to fix a critical issue. Guide for designing severity levels in data 👇 synq.io/blog/designing…

I've written a guide on how to level up your dbt tests. Read it here: synq.io/blog/the-compl…

The data alerting workflow is hard to manage at scale. Here's a post about the challenges many teams face and an example of a better solution synq.io/blog/data-aler…

Incident management for data teams with incident.io synq.io/blog/incident-…

Data and product to engineer ratio for 50 top scaleups synq.io/blog/data-prod…

How to identify your business-critical data by Mikkel Dengsøe buff.ly/3Ji9xyN

“We are spending $50,000 per day on Facebook marketing and one of our upstream pipelines was not syncing for 3 days causing us to waste half of our budget. We had no idea this was happening until they notified us” - 250 people eCommerce company synq.io/blog/hidden-co…

Monitoring data quality for data warehouse-centric ML systems medium.com/@mikldd/buildi…

2024: The year of the value-driven data person - Growth at all costs has been replaced with a need to operate efficiently and be ROI-driven–data teams are no exception by Mikkel Dengsøe buff.ly/47rJrTs

In this blog post, Mikkel Dengsøe looked into five steps you can take to make sure you’re well-positioned and aligned to business value if you work in a data role: buff.ly/47rJrTs