This company is in the planning stages of an upgrade of its data warehouse from version 0.9 to version 2.0, in a totally different environment with a different data structure. But there’s another concern for one pilot fish in the meeting.

“I happened to know that some of that data was consumed by a downstream process that was not being maintained, since the developer had left and it was written in a non-preferred technology,” says fish.

“Since the director who owned that system was in this meeting, I spoke up about how the change would impact that system.”

Several meeting participants respond with “good catch”-type comments. The director is typing something into a BlackBerry. The meeting moves on.

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