#259 The Fellowship of the Data Mesh: The Journey to Meshtopia - Mesh Musings 54

<p>Key points:</p><ul><li>Every organization starts from a different location when heading to Data Meshtopia. Every journey will look different. Try to understand why they chose to do what when - often by just getting in touch and asking them.</li><li>Because the journey looks different, where you put your focus when will depend. Look to the fundamentals of what are you trying to achieve, how to achieve short and long-term value, and how are you making progress.</li><li>You can choose your own journey - there are different paths to getting to Meshtopia, just because you look like another organization doesn't mean you have to tread the same path.</li><li>Think about the old trope of playing to your strengths while shoring up your weaknesses. This doesn't mean ONLY play to your strengths, that is where I am seeing the most failures… Just because you're bad at governance doesn't mean you can ignore it…</li><li>Find your fellowship or fellowships. Find people to constantly stay in touch with and exchange information. They are also your best leverage points quite often: "Hey, we want to do XYZ approach, Scott here says this is a very standard approach from these 10 organizations and here are the pitfalls so we aren't making this up out of our butts."</li><li>Meshtopia isn't some utopia. It's not as if all our problems are suddenly solved - some of the old lingering ones might be but there are new problems to battle too. It's not as if life is blissful the second you get to a better place.</li></ul><br/><p>Please Rate and Review us on your podcast app of choice!</p><p>Sign up for Data Mesh Understanding's free roundtable and introduction programs here: <a href="https://landing.datameshunderstanding.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://landing.datameshunderstanding.com/</a></p><p>If you want to be a guest or give feedback (suggestions for topics, comments, etc.), please see <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WkXLhSH7mnbjfTChD0uuYeIF5Tj0UBLUP4Jvl20Ym10/edit?usp=sharing" rel="noopener norefer