7 QUESTIONS EVERY DATA TEAM SHOULD ASK THE BUSINESS

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

Most data teams struggle with the same problem: nobody knows what to work on. The business asks for dashboards, the analysts build them, and a month later, everyone quietly stops using them. This piece argues it's a conversation problem. The author's team at Facebook used to sit down with every department twice a year and ask questions that got to the real issues: What's keeping you from hitting your targets? When was the last time data changed your mind? Where are you putting in effort without results? These questions don't sound technical, but they surface where data can actually help. If you stop asking what people “need from data” and start asking how they make decisions, you'll finally find work that matters.