Re:Modern Data Modeling: Start with the End?
by sails on Monday December 05, 2022 @12:28PM
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Agree it is very sensitive to the context.
The outcomes are a mixed bag, but my biggest experienced failing was on a project starting naively with OBT and waiting for things to become clearer, it did indeed soon became clear that we should have taken a more methodical approach, as we had the dual problem of huge dependencies and a very brittle data model!
(I don't think there is an easy answer here btw, I am hoping for someone to describe a detailed and relatively generalisable playbook, hopefully soon!)
The outcomes are a mixed bag, but my biggest experienced failing was on a project starting naively with OBT and waiting for things to become clearer, it did indeed soon became clear that we should have taken a more methodical approach, as we had the dual problem of huge dependencies and a very brittle data model!
(I don't think there is an easy answer here btw, I am hoping for someone to describe a detailed and relatively generalisable playbook, hopefully soon!)