Federated Data Architectures: Why PMs Fail

Henkel's data platform shipped perfectly on time and budget—yet nine months later, nobody trusted the reports. The problem wasn't the data or design. It was an organizational structure that gave product managers accountability without authority. Full article: https://davidohnstad.com/federated-data-architectures-product-managers-fail/

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-11-02
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23892733
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Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
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Federated Data Architectures: Why PMs Fail

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Federated Data Architectures: Why PMs Fail

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Henkel's data platform shipped perfectly on time and budget—yet nine months later, nobody trusted the reports. The problem wasn't the data or design. It was an organizational structure that gave product managers accountability without authority. Full article: https://davidohnstad.com/federated-data-architectures-product-managers-fail/

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