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Data Gibberish
Data Gibberish
If you want your team out of constant urgent fixes and your work seen by the people who fund the team, I write twice a week about how to do both.

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👷 An AI bot won't save your overwhelmed data team
If your data team is overwhelmed with ad hoc requests, definitions, a model and a few reports fix it before any bot can.
 • Yordan Ivanov
👷 Why data projects die when you buy the stack everyone uses
and the six questions to think through before you sign a contract
 • Yordan Ivanov
51:36
👷 How I estimate my projects
because, just like every other engineer, I estimate for perfect conditions
 • Yordan Ivanov
👷 Nobody funds a debt ticket that only says the pipeline is fragile
Price it in hours a month and off the warehouse bill, and every slip of the date becomes somebody's decision.
 • Yordan Ivanov
👷 A confident guess is a lie, even when it's right
Say what you know, what you don't yet, and when they'll have the rest. The card is inside, filled in three times.
 • Yordan Ivanov
👷 Your data strategy is a sales job (and you're the salesperson)
Why your sensible plan still get declined, what a Big Tech stack does to your pace, and what goes on the two pages a team of five needs.
 • Yordan Ivanov
👷 Course: Design your promotion and get paid at the right number
This is the framework I used for my coaching clients, team and myself. It’s proven and collectively earned hundreds of thousands of dollars to people…
 • Yordan Ivanov
1:12:42
👷 Design Your Promotion: How Erfan Got Over 20%
His manager changed three months before the review, and the first offer was 12%. What got him to 22% was written down.
 • Yordan Ivanov and Erfan Hesami
55:11
👷 Design Your Promotion: Send Your Promotion Case
Five to eight lines, a name on every one of them, and the promises you broke.
 • Yordan Ivanov
1:01:05
👷 Design Your Promotion: Translate Your Wins Into Business Language
The report got faster, nobody said thank you, and I nearly threw away the best line in my promotion case.
 • Yordan Ivanov
55:25
👷 Design Your Promotion: Pick Your Outcome and Your Number
I am the Head of Data who sings off your 3% increase
 • Yordan Ivanov
59:50
👷 Design Your Promotion: Collect Your Wins Before They Go Cold
The exact rewrite that turns a vague claim into a line a CFO believes.
 • Yordan Ivanov

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