https://www.patreon.com/datameshradio (Data Mesh Radio Patreon) - get access to interviews well before they are released Episode list and links to all available episode transcripts (most interviews from #32 on) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZmCIinVgIm0xjIVFpL9jMtCiOlBQ7LbvLmtmb0FKcQc/edit?usp=sharing (here) Provided as a free resource by DataStax https://www.datastax.com/products/datastax-astra?utm_source=DataMeshRadio (AstraDB); George Trujillo's contact info: email (george.trujillo@datastax.com) and https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgetrujillo/ (LinkedIn) Transcript for this episode (https://docs.google.com/document/d/14bbqPIo_6FcpBy0IdwXCtGlTZjb9FN9gO9J1q27Y68A/edit?usp=sharing (link)) provided by Starburst. See their Data Mesh Summit recordings https://www.starburst.io/learn/events-webinars/datanova-on-demand/?utm_campaign=starburst-brand&utm_medium=outbound&utm_source=&utm_type=&utm_content=dmradiodnvid&utm_term= (here) and their great data mesh resource center https://www.starburst.io/info/distributed-data-mesh-resource-center/?utm_campaign=starburst-brand&utm_medium=outbound&utm_source=&utm_type=&utm_content=dmradiodmcenter&utm_term= (here). You can download their Data Mesh for Dummies e-book (info gated) https://starburst.io/info/data-mesh-for-dummies/?utm_campaign=starburst-brand&utm_medium=outbound&utm_source=&utm_type=&utm_content=dmradiodnvid&utm_term= (here). Adelle's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adelle-mcdonald-79a9a2139/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adelle-mcdonald-79a9a2139/) In this episode, Scott interviewed Adelle McDonald, Customer and Origination Lead at ANZ Plus, a bank in Australia and New Zealand. Some key takeaways/thoughts from Adelle's point of view: To drive buy-in, the 1:1 conversations with domain owners - the business leaders - you will have to tailor your conversations to each person. Listen to their pain and reflect it back to them. Focus on an ability to quickly pivot with low cost. That can mean things aren't as product-worthy to start but it means you can evolve towards value more quickly. Addressing domain owners' pain points gets them looking at you as a partner. They will be much more willing to work with you, especially as you partner to provide actionable insights. ?Controversial?: ANZ Plus is embedding data leads into domains to handle the data quanta for the domain and also build the team what they need from data. As part of that, they are slowly building up the domains' capabilities to handle their own data. This minimizes friction and creates buy-in but is likely not long-term sustainable - ownership will need to be transferred. Very important to tie the data quanta to use cases - driving value for users means focusing on use cases. Developers or software engineers owning data is complicated. Make it so they can start to make small changes and learn in a safe way instead of dumping all ownership on them at once. Ownership and knowledge aren't a switch you flip. Using a git-based, pull request approach, developers can attempt data work without manual stitching so they learn to do the work themselves; but it can still be easily overseen by someone with more data expertise. One way to potentially drive executive buy-in is joint/collaborative KPIs. So it's not just about their domain's results but how well they work and drive results with another domain. ?Controversial?: It's okay to have a data asset with murky long-term ownership at first. If usage picks up, you want to convert it to a proper data quantum but we need to be able to test the waters with things and see if they are actually useful first. Clarity comes with usage. When creating anything data related, use a software development lifecycle (SDLC) approach. Domains may create something exclusively internal to the domain but once you look to share externally, you have rules and standards and best practices. Move from the pipeline...