10 Landscape, organization, opportunity, and practice

 

This chapter covers

  • Monitoring the technology landscape for new architectures and best practices
  • Navigating different organizational structures and analyzing the benefits and pitfalls of each one
  • Evaluating career opportunities at industry, company, team, and role level
  • Establishing a powerful and focused plan for onboarding into a new role
  • Articulating practices to hire for and defining career directions for the next role

What are overarching perspectives that can empower you to accelerate your career more confidently? Let’s take a look at the landscape, organization, opportunity, and practice (LOOP) areas to amplify how you can use DS to produce outsized impact:

10.1 The landscape

10.1.1 Data lakehouse

10.1.2 Stream processing

10.1.3 Self-serve insight

10.1.4 Data and ML operations automation

10.1.5 Data governance

10.1.6 Periodic review for major architecture trends

10.2 The organization

10.2.1 Functional organizational structure

10.2.2 Divisional organizational structure

10.2.3 Matrix organizational structure

10.2.4 Alternative organizational structure

10.2.5 Managing for opportunities and challenges in various structures