Organizational Anti-Patterns For Data Teams

And Data Work

As companies continue to implement data and automated processes into their workflows and strategies, they unavoidably set up processes that, in the short run, help them develop faster but often have negative impacts in the long run.

You could call these organizational anti-patterns or process anti-patterns. But honestly, that's me just looking for some form of a buzzword to fit my article around(although I did find the term "Product Owner Anti Patterns").

The point is that these issues and problems aren't driven by technology but by communication and organizational styles. Perhaps we could apply Conway's law to this. 

Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.

--Melvin Conway