Data Product Strategy: When to Kill a $250K Initiative

Sometimes shipping a customer-facing product means sacrificing it. David Ohnstad shares how Veeam killed a $250K analytics initiative mid-development to rebuild the metadata infrastructure every team depended on—and why that was the right call. Full article: https://davidohnstad.com/data-product-strategy-kill-initiative/

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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.23892970
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Big Data and Business Intelligence
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Data Product Strategy: When to Kill a $250K Initiative

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Data Product Strategy: When to Kill a $250K Initiative

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Abstract

Sometimes shipping a customer-facing product means sacrificing it. David Ohnstad shares how Veeam killed a $250K analytics initiative mid-development to rebuild the metadata infrastructure every team depended on—and why that was the right call. Full article: https://davidohnstad.com/data-product-strategy-kill-initiative/

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