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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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data onboarding

/ˈdeɪtə ˈɒnbɔːrdɪŋ/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The two weeks a new hire spends discovering which of the four dashboards is the real one.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. The process by which a new team member gains the access and context to work productively with the data.

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See also
  • documentation debtThe distance between the wiki and the warehouse, compounding every sprint and paid by whoever onboards next.
  • report sprawlForty dashboards answering one question, each slightly, confidently wrong.
  • tribal knowledgeThe real documentation, sharded across the people most likely to resign.