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DataOps techniques can provide a more agile and collaborative approach to building and managing data pipelines. The pandemic has accelerated the need for data and analytics leaders to deliver data and analytics insight faster, with higher quality and resiliency in the face of constant change. Organizations need to make better-informed and faster decisions with a focus on automation, real-time risk assessment and mitigation, continuous value delivery and agility. The point of DataOps is to change how people collaborate around data and how it is used in the organization  As a result, data and analytics leaders are increasingly applying DataOps techniques that provide a more agile and collaborative approach to building and managing data pipelines. What is DataOps? Gartner defines DataOps as a collaborative data management practice focused on improving the communication, integration and automation of data flows between data managers and data consumers across an organization. “The poi...

In a business context, capability-based planning is an approach that ensures that changes in an organization are aligned to the overarching strategic vision. The approach has its origins in defense and military planning by the likes of the US, UK, Australia and Canada. More recently, it has become popular in the business domain, particularly for developing systems and IT-related strategies. The overall theory is that those organizations with superior capability to execute strategy will win – whether they are the armed forces or a business. Whilst capability-based planning has long been the tool of trade for military planners and strategists, consultants and enterprise architects, it hasn’t yet been widely understood or adopted in the broader community. What is a Capability? A capability describes what the business does and should not be confused with just the skills or competencies of the people (which the HR function also refers to as a capability). So, a business capability is descri...