Great stuff. I learned at my last startup that the role of CTO is essentially a translation role. These two different worlds have so much in common, but the jargon is such a barrier that most companies literally become adversarial.
Coincidentally, this is also one of the primary goals of a traditional, Kimball-style data warehouse. Let the people explore and look at the data in terms of business concepts rather than implementation model concepts.
Especially in the startup world, these issues seem to be the cause of a huge amount of organizational cost.
Great stuff. I learned at my last startup that the role of CTO is essentially a translation role. These two different worlds have so much in common, but the jargon is such a barrier that most companies literally become adversarial.
Coincidentally, this is also one of the primary goals of a traditional, Kimball-style data warehouse. Let the people explore and look at the data in terms of business concepts rather than implementation model concepts.
Especially in the startup world, these issues seem to be the cause of a huge amount of organizational cost.