Go searching and you’ll understand most corporations – massive or small – are working in the direction of utilizing knowledge to construct a aggressive benefit. At Atlan, we now have all the time believed that data-driven groups might be behind essentially the most wonderful human achievements within the subsequent decade, from curing most cancers to creating self-driving vehicles to placing folks on Mars.
Over the previous few years, we now have 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 info folks behind these revolutionary corporations proceed to encourage us.
At this time 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 a terrific 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 grow to be agile and collaborative isn’t straightforward.
And most significantly… doing it on their own as an information chief isn’t straightforward.
At this time, 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 suitable practices and improvements to make on a regular basis work higher. Airbnb created an inner Knowledge College, and Netflix measures its Productiveness Engineering. After we had been an information staff ourselves, we created our personal DataOps Tradition Code with the core rules that helped our staff collaborate higher.
We’ve additionally seen nice improvements from knowledge folks within the corporations we work with — getting various knowledge customers collectively, articulating the worth of knowledge initiatives, constructing an information product mindset, discovering and nurturing knowledge expertise, coaching and onboarding new folks inside groups, organising the DataOps operate (staff, roles, and duties), incubating an information neighborhood, and much more!
However these improvements usually stay restricted to those organizations. Knowledge leaders proceed to reinvent the wheel, battling the identical issues again and again.
This six-week program is designed to assist these knowledge leaders to return collectively, be taught from one another, innovate by 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 the direction of implementing the core rules of DataOps to supercharge their productiveness, effectivity, and innovation.

Meet the inaugural cohort of 20+ knowledge pioneers
- Ainslie Eck: Knowledge Governance Supervisor at Indigo Ag
- Anne Fajkus: Supervisor of Knowledge Governance at ZoomInfo
- Hendrik Brackmann: VP Knowledge at Tide
- Kenza Zanzouri: Knowledge Governance Strategist at Contentsquare
- Levi Dantzinger: Analytics Supervisor at Bestow
- Lizeth Alexandra Verano León: Senior Supervisor Enterprise Intelligence at Belcorp
- Martina Coad: Knowledge Governance Analyst at Bestow
- Michal Szymanski: Knowledge Governance Lead at Tide
- Olivia Maquar: Senior Knowledge Analyst at Elastic
- Otávio Leite Bastos: International Knowledge Governance Lead at Contentsquare
- Robert Griswold: Supervisor of Enterprise Intelligence at Tokyo Electron U.S.
- Sandy Crossman: Supervisor, DataOps & Enablement at Suffolk Development
- Sara Baker: Senior Supervisor, Enterprise Knowledge Analytics at ZoomInfo
- Sean Rober: Head of Knowledge, Avenue One
- Steven Hloros: Senior Software program Engineer at Crown Asset Administration, LLC
- Tyler Vera: Knowledge Steward at Pluralsight
They’re joined by seven extra knowledge leaders from corporations like Generate Capital, Vehicles.com, and Elastic.
Be taught 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 below are a few of their responses:
- Iron Man (Tony Stark): He was my inspiration as a child to grow to be an engineer in a while.
- 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 difficult conditions.
- Harley Quinn: Due to her superpower, she finds very nice options to her issues.
- Terminator (T-800): Due to his stoic character, reliability, a terrific cadre of closest “buddies”, and willpower in pursuing targets.
- Don Draper (Mad Males): He demonstrates how notion generally is a actuality in enterprise.
- Surprise Girl: She’s sensible, fierce, and has nice equipment.
- Michael Scott: The best boss there ever was.
- Sew: As a result of he’s totally different but in addition so liked for being unusual and himself.
- George P. Burdell: If you understand, you understand! He can do something he units his thoughts to.
It’s no shock these folks determined to work in knowledge with their love of problem-solving, willpower, and ingenuity!
We’ll be sharing extra updates from this system and this group’s journey, who’re already exhibiting off some actual knowledge superpowers of their very own. Keep tuned on LinkedIn and Twitter.