Project Planning and Implementation Data Projects

Introduction for Data Engineers

What? Project planning? We are just engineers mucking away in the dark recesses of our attics and basements, closing JIRA tickets and putting in PRs, scrolling r/dataengineering and laughing at all the poor souls still using SSIS. What do we know about project planning?

Unfortunately for us Data Engineers, other people exist in this world. And those people require things of us. We aren’t measured by just our code anymore. In the age of GPT and CoPilot, our human skills seem to bubble up to the surface more often, setting us apart from the mindless robots trying to take our jobs.

Probably one of the hardest parts of Data Engineering, and one far from the grasp of our AI overloads is project planning and implementation in a data context.