#299 Empowering Development with Actionable Data - Interview w/ Carol Assis and Eduardo Santos
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Carol's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carol-assis/
Eduardo's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eduardosan/
Continuous Integration book: https://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Integration-Improving-Software-Reducing/dp/0321336380
Measure What Matters book: https://www.amazon.com/Measure-What-Matters-Google-Foundation/dp/0525536221
Inspired by Marty Cagan: https://www.amazon.com/INSPIRED-Create-Tech-Products-Customers/dp/1119387507
Empowered by Marty Cagan: https://www.amazon.com/EMPOWERED-Ordinary-Extraordinary-Products-Silicon/dp/111969129X
In this episode, Scott interviewed Carol Assis, Data Analyst/Data Product Manager and Eduardo Santos, Professor and Consultant, both at Thoughtworks. To be clear, they were only representing their own views on the episode.
From here forward in this write-up, I will be generally combining both Carol and Eduardo's views into one rather than trying to specifically call out who said which part.
Some key takeaways/thoughts from Eduardo and Carol's point of view:
- At the end of the day, the team that produces the data will get the most use out of it 9/10 times. Getting teams used to developing with data in mind isn't just useful for the organization, it is for maximizing their own team's success.
- Continuous integration is a crucial concept in general for learning how to automate and focus on delivering more, which leads to...