Choose Your Route
If you’re here, you’re probably trying to move, fix, or understand data. Pick a route.
Chart the Need
Most problems start half-formed. This is about turning conversations, assumptions, and conflicting views into something structured enough to deliver.
How requirements are shaped into scope, decisions, and testable outcomes. Covers user stories, process flows, traceability, and the practical link between what’s asked and what actually gets built.
Trace the Routes
Systems rarely fail in isolation. The problems usually sit in the gaps between them. This is about designing those joins properly.
Patterns for moving data between systems—APIs, batch, files, and events. Includes staging, orchestration, identity, and how to keep control when multiple platforms are involved.
Make the Crossing
Moving data is the easy bit. Proving it’s right, complete, and usable is where most programmes struggle.
End-to-end migration thinking: scope, mappings, keys, relationships, staging, reconciliation, and cutover. Focused on repeatability and being able to demonstrate that source and target genuinely align.
Read the Signals
Data only becomes useful when it can be interpreted. This is about turning activity into something that can be understood and acted on.
From raw data to reporting and insight. Covers data models, metrics, and practical analytics—less about dashboards, more about making data meaningful and usable.
Survey the Territory
Before changing anything, you need to understand the shape of what’s already there. Most issues come from unseen dependencies.
Mapping the wider data estate: platforms, ownership, boundaries, and flows. Includes architectural patterns, current vs target state, and how to plan change without breaking what already works.