Culture · Contracts · dbt
Schema Review as a Tea Break Ritual
Schema reviews fail when they feel like courtrooms. We time-box ours to twenty minutes, serve an actual beverage, and rotate facilitators weekly.
dbt users bring one breaking change proposal with consumer impact spelled out in non-technical sentences.
This rhythm reduced thrash in a regional logistics pilot: fewer Friday reversions, more mid-week adjustments.
We share the agenda skeleton and a few phrases we ban (“obviously backward compatible”) to keep tone curious instead of defensive.
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