Building a mature data contracts-backed data culture

In this section, we’ll look at what to build as your data culture matures through the adoption of data contracts.

Data contracts should now be an explicit part of your organization’s strategy and architecture. You expect all useful data to be provided through data contracts, providing the interface and all the tooling to support that data.

We’ll have formalized the concept of data products within the organization, hiring data product managers to take on the responsibility of creating great data products that meet the requirements of the data consumers. As we discussed in Chapter 3, How To Get Adoption In Your Organization, by adopting a data product mindset and creating data products for the rest of your organization to consume, you increase the amount of accessible data you have available to drive business outcomes. With better data quality from the source, we reduce the time to insight and action, as...