Acting Locally Introduction

In the universe of agile organizations and decentralized governance, those who built and maintain the individual parts of our IT landscape, have the most influence on how these parts are realized, and thus how they will interact with other parts. This is closely related to the concept of do-ocracy where those who do the work have or get the mandate make the decisions.

Whether an organization explicitly adopts do-ocracy or not, more often than not it effectively it is the case: it is the best model to describe what happens or gets done. This means that one of the biggest challenges to implementing a data architecture is to make it so that those who do the work decide to conform to it.

My experience is that those who do the work easily recognize the benefits of a good data architecture, but they often lack the know how of how to conform to it. In this part we’ll have a look at data architecture from the perspective of those who need to built it.