Key takeaways

As a takeaway from this chapter, you will want to keep IT operations in the front rather than the back of your mind as you build out your future-proof data-engineered data factory solution that can stand the test of time. What your vision is for a good IT operational model will be stressed when you have to balance various stakeholder demands and divergent technical cultures even within your own company.

Everyone will want to leverage their own experience. Part of your job will be to get them to see the big picture first, and then knit together a new plan of action based on the shared vision. Some preexisting organizational policies and governance models will constrain your mission, and for that, we can only wish you much luck, as will you have to make compromises and sell those compromises to all your constituents. You will win some battles and lose others. For sure, change will remain constant, so be Agile, but just do not build something that is fragile.

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