How to Get Adoption in Your Organization

Now that we have a good understanding of what data contracts are and how they can help solve the data problems we have in our organizations, let’s look at how we can get started on the journey toward implementing and deploying data contracts.

What we’ll find is that while data contracts are a technical architecture supported by our tooling, they’re also our vessel for changing the data culture in our organizations. We are moving away from data as a side product and instead applying more discipline to how we generate our data in order to meet the requirements of our data consumers. And we’re doing that because we understand the value our organization can get from its data, and how that will lead to better outcomes for the business.

Changing the data culture is not easy but is essential for the successful adoption of data contracts. Throughout this chapter, we’ll be discussing how to approach this culture...