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Recipes for DataOps Success
2021
Recipes for DataOps Success: a complete guide to enterprise DataOps transformation — how to build support, pick a first project, and scale beyond one team.
- Length
- 180 pages
- Price
- Free
About this book
Recipes for DataOps Success is a step-by-step guide to taking DataOps from one team to an entire enterprise. It is organized around six stages — educate, find, establish, demonstrate, iterate, and expand — and answers the questions that stall most transformations: how to build executive support, how to choose a first project that matters, how to prove the team's value with process analytics, and how to spread the practice without losing it. Interleaved throughout are food recipes contributed by the DataKitchen team.
Key points
- Recipes for DataOps Success is a 180-page guide to taking DataOps from one team to an entire enterprise.
- It is organized around six stages: educate, find, establish, demonstrate, iterate, and expand.
- It answers the questions that stall a transformation: how to build executive support, which first project to pick, and how to prove the value with process analytics.
- Written by Chris Bergh, Eran Strod, and James Royster, who was Head of Data Strategy and Operations at Celgene.
- Seventeen of the book's 21 chapters are readable on datakitchen.io, linked from the table of contents on this page.
- Endorsed by Wayne Eckerson, Harvinder Atwal, Laura Madsen, Jesse Anderson, Lars Albertsson, and Simon Trewin.
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What's inside
21 chapters, most of them published here first: the book's contribution is the selection and the order. Linked titles go straight to the full text, no form required. The 22 food recipes between them are listed in grey.
Introduction
- Introduction
Educate
- Why Do DataOps
- Better than Shake ‘n Bake!
- For Data Team Success, What You Do is Less Important Than How You Do It
- “Chicken & Rice Guys” Chicken and Rice
- 6 Steps to an Enterprise DataOps Transformation
- Bungeoppang
- The Business Case for DataOps
- Red Lentil Curry / Dal
Find
- Launch Your DataOps Journey with the DataOps Maturity Model
- Slovak Sunday Bone Broth Soup
- Jump-Starting Your DataOps Journey
- Peanut Butter Energy Bites
- 4 Easy Ways to Start DataOps Today
- Chocolate Stout Cupcakes with Irish Whiskey Filling and Baileys Frosting
Establish
- Finding an Executive Sponsor for Your DataOps Initiative
- Gil’s Easy Chicken Cacciatore
- Pitching a DataOps Project That Matters
- Risotto alla Monzese
Demonstrate
- Prove Your Team’s Awesomeness with DataOps Process Analytics
- Grandma’s Italian Meatballs
Iterate
Expand
- Do You Need a DataOps Dojo?
- Spinach Madeline
- DataOps Engineer Will Be the Sexiest Job in Analytics
- Kerala Style Chicken Stew
- Improving Teamwork in Data Analytics with DataOps
- Spinach-Mushroom Quiche
- Governance as Code
- Slow Cooker Hangi Pork
Conclusion
- Why Are There So Many -Ops Terms?
- Mom’s Keto Chocolate Peanut Butter Fat Bombs
- A Guide to Understanding DataOps Solutions
- Gil’s Old Fashion Fudge
- What a DataOps Platform Can Do For You
- Chapssal Doughnuts
Back Matter
- DataOps Resources
- About the Authors
- Additional Recipes: Chicken Breasts with Marsala Wine
- Additional Recipes: Dakgalbi
- Additional Recipes: Isaac’s Special Chicken
- Additional Recipes: White Russian Tiramisu Cake
The Complete Guide to an Enterprise DataOps Transformation
See how data teams are using DataOps to transform their organizations for business agility. This book answers questions such as how do you build support for DataOps? What is the best first project? How can you transfer DataOps from a single team to the greater enterprise? And much much more!
Fill in the form on this page for the full PDF. The chapters with a web version are linked in the contents list, too.
One chapter is published in full as its own white paper: Eliminate Your Analytics Development Bottlenecks applies the Theory of Constraints to analytics development — how to find the one step holding up delivery, and what to do about it.
What People Are Saying
“Recipes for DataOps Success answers the all-important question: how do we get started with DataOps? Concise and well-written, this book is a wonderful primer for any data & analytics professional or business owner who finally wants to get real value from their data assets.”
— Wayne Eckerson, President, The Eckerson Group
“Chris Bergh, Eran Strod, and James Royster have written a unique book that is the go-to guide for DataOps transformation. It covers an impressive breadth and scope of topics and explains them in a highly accessible way. If your organization is in any way struggling to deliver high-quality data analytics at speed you owe it to yourself to read this book, there is something to learn for everyone.”
— Harvinder Atwal, Author, Practical DataOps: Delivering Agile Data Science at Scale
“DataOps is one of the most important innovations in the data industry in the last decade. It will transform how your organization delivers analytic capabilities, drives value, and shifts to data-supported decisions. The latest book from DataKitchen is the ‘how-to’ manual that you need to start your DataOps transformation.”
— Laura Madsen, Author, Disrupting Data Governance
“Takes the path to success with DataOps to a whole new level of understanding. There are so many actionable insights in the book.”
— Jesse Anderson, Author, Data Teams
“The authors of ‘Recipes for DataOps’ have understood what most of the industry has yet to learn — the key to data success lies not in having large data science teams or the latest machinery, components, and tools, but in establishing efficient, value-driven work processes. This book is a great step-by-step guide to unlocking that capability and achieving a DataOps culture — the data- and AI equivalent of Lean manufacturing.”
— Lars Albertsson, Founder of Scling
“This book is a great read and really important for any organization that wants to transform with DataOps rather than tinker around the edges. The book covers important concepts critical to the success of DataOps such as the Theory of Constraints, Process Measurement, and DataGovOps. This is a must-read for anyone open to finding better ways of working through DataOps.”
— Simon Trewin, Author, The DataOps Revolution: Delivering the Data-Driven Enterprise
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Recipes for DataOps Success
What is Recipes for DataOps Success about?
It is a 180-page guide to taking DataOps from one team to a whole enterprise. The book is organized around six stages: educate, find, establish, demonstrate, iterate, and expand. It answers the questions that stall most transformations, including how to build executive support and how to choose a first project that matters.
Who should read it?
Anyone responsible for spreading DataOps beyond the team that already practices it: heads of data and analytics, transformation leads, and the engineers who will run the first project. It assumes you are already convinced DataOps is worth doing. If you are not there yet, start with The DataOps Cookbook.
Is Recipes for DataOps Success free?
Yes. The full 180-page PDF costs nothing: fill in the form on this page and we send you a copy. Fifteen of the book's 21 chapters are also readable on this site with no form at all, and the table of contents above links to each one.
Who wrote Recipes for DataOps Success?
Chris Bergh, Eran Strod, and James Royster. Chris is a co-founder and the CEO of DataKitchen. James Royster was Head of Data Strategy and Operations at Celgene and has led commercial data teams in pharma, so the chapters on enterprise change come from someone who ran one from the inside.
What are the six stages of a DataOps transformation?
Educate, find, establish, demonstrate, iterate, and expand. You build shared understanding first, find a project worth doing, establish the practice around it, demonstrate the result in terms the business already recognizes, iterate on what you learned, then expand to the next team. The book gives each stage its own section.
How is it different from The DataOps Cookbook?
The Cookbook explains what DataOps is and how to practice it. This book is about organizational change: getting a transformation funded, sequenced, measured, and spread past one team. One of its chapters, Eliminate Your Analytics Development Bottlenecks, is published in full as a white paper on this site.
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