Go searching and you’ll notice most corporations – massive or small – are working in direction of utilizing knowledge to construct a aggressive benefit. At Atlan, we have now all the time believed that data-driven groups can be behind probably the most wonderful human achievements within the subsequent decade, from curing most cancers to creating self-driving automobiles to placing individuals on Mars.
Over the previous few years, we have now been lucky to work with wonderful knowledge people, compassionate leaders and provoking knowledge practitioners doing nice work.
From leveraging digital applied sciences to enhance farmer profitability to redefining how the world builds, from creating the modern-day know-how workforce to constructing the open supply stack for search-powered options… we might go on about how the information individuals behind these revolutionary corporations proceed to encourage us.
Right this moment we’re so proud to announce our DataOps Leaders Program, an immersive, invite-only program to assist wonderful knowledge leaders come collectively and win with DataOps. 💙
The “why” behind the DataOps Management Program
At its core, DataOps is about serving to knowledge groups work collectively, higher. It takes inspiration from Agile, DevOps, and Lean Manufacturing to create practices that enhance high quality, velocity, and collaboration and promote a tradition of steady enchancment.
After we take into consideration how our journey began, it wasn’t straightforward. Creating an important knowledge tradition isn’t straightforward. Navigating this universe of knowledge isn’t straightforward. Constructing a dream knowledge staff isn’t straightforward. Serving to a staff turn into agile and collaborative isn’t straightforward.
And most significantly… doing it on their lonesome as a knowledge chief isn’t straightforward.
Right this moment, the dialog must shift from the necessity for higher tooling to the following “delta” that can lastly assist us create dream knowledge groups — the trendy knowledge tradition stack.
Each knowledge staff is trying to find the appropriate practices and improvements to make on a regular basis work higher. Airbnb created an inside Information College, and Netflix measures its Productiveness Engineering. After we had been a knowledge staff ourselves, we created our personal DataOps Tradition Code with the core ideas that helped our staff collaborate higher.
We’ve additionally seen nice improvements from knowledge individuals within the corporations we work with — getting numerous knowledge customers collectively, articulating the worth of knowledge initiatives, constructing a knowledge product mindset, discovering and nurturing knowledge expertise, coaching and onboarding new individuals inside groups, organising the DataOps operate (staff, roles, and duties), incubating a knowledge group, and much more!
However these improvements usually stay restricted to those organizations. Information leaders proceed to reinvent the wheel, scuffling with the identical issues over and over.
This six-week program is designed to assist these knowledge leaders to come back collectively, be taught from one another, innovate by means of shared experiences, and share finest practices and innovation from their knowledge groups — and, within the course of, construct nice knowledge dream groups.
With actionable workshops and no-fluff content material, this cohort will collectively work in direction of implementing the core ideas of DataOps to supercharge their productiveness, effectivity, and innovation.

Meet the inaugural cohort of 20+ knowledge pioneers
- Ainslie Eck: Information Governance Supervisor at Indigo Ag
- Anne Fajkus: Supervisor of Information Governance at ZoomInfo
- Hendrik Brackmann: VP Information at Tide
- Kenza Zanzouri: Information Governance Strategist at Contentsquare
- Levi Dantzinger: Analytics Supervisor at Bestow
- Lizeth Alexandra Verano León: Senior Supervisor Enterprise Intelligence at Belcorp
- Martina Coad: Information Governance Analyst at Bestow
- Michal Szymanski: Information Governance Lead at Tide
- Olivia Maquar: Senior Information Analyst at Elastic
- Otávio Leite Bastos: International Information Governance Lead at Contentsquare
- Robert Griswold: Supervisor of Enterprise Intelligence at Tokyo Electron U.S.
- Sandy Crossman: Supervisor, DataOps & Enablement at Suffolk Building
- Sara Baker: Senior Supervisor, Enterprise Information Analytics at ZoomInfo
- Sean Rober: Head of Information, Avenue One
- Steven Hloros: Senior Software program Engineer at Crown Asset Administration, LLC
- Tyler Vera: Information Steward at Pluralsight
They’re joined by seven extra knowledge leaders from corporations like Generate Capital, Vehicles.com, and Elastic.
Study extra about this inaugural cohort in our DataOps Leaders Program Listing.
Taking inspiration from fictional characters
At the start of this system, we requested these knowledge leaders about their favourite fictional characters. Listed here are a few of their responses:
- Iron Man (Tony Stark): He was my inspiration as a child to turn into an engineer afterward.
- Velma from Scooby-Doo: Like her, I can’t see with out my glasses and I like fixing a thriller.
- James Kirk: For his ingenuity to get out of tough conditions.
- Harley Quinn: Due to her superpower, she finds very nice options to her issues.
- Terminator (T-800): Due to his stoic character, reliability, an important cadre of closest “associates”, and dedication in pursuing objectives.
- Don Draper (Mad Males): He demonstrates how notion could be a actuality in enterprise.
- Marvel Lady: She’s sensible, fierce, and has nice equipment.
- Michael Scott: The best boss there ever was.
- Sew: As a result of he’s completely different but additionally so liked for being unusual and himself.
- George P. Burdell: If , ! He can do something he units his thoughts to.
It’s no shock these individuals determined to work in knowledge with their love of problem-solving, dedication, and ingenuity!
We’ll be sharing extra updates from this system and this group’s journey, who’re already displaying off some actual knowledge superpowers of their very own. Keep tuned on LinkedIn and Twitter.