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A Data Engineer’s Journey – IT’s Vision and Mission

In this chapter, you will learn about the importance of a formalized vision, mission, principles, and architecture patterns as you design your solution. You will learn how to formulate these key artifacts for your solution and observe a few successfully implemented examples.

The key takeaway will be a renewed understanding of the need for a clear vision and mission so that what is developed is aligned with the business’s needs. If requirements or designs deviate from the end goals, you will be able to provide justifiable pushback and then realign these requirements before unclear expectations (either of you or the solution) are created.

We will explain exactly why this is important to you, ...

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