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Rules with a home
Tartu's once only. A bill never corrected, and a script on the wall. Each rule written once, with an owner and a reason: tests for the data, a tracking table for the business.
Topics › Enterprise architecture › The map before the data
When strategy moves: one change, walked down every layer to the owners, rules and contracts it touches
Kenya, 2007: money sent home goes with a bus driver or a friend, and not all of it arrives. A mobile network sets a new strategy, to carry money as well as calls, and launches M-Pesa. That strategy fits in a sentence, and making it real reached every layer, down to the shop counter. Then the government's direction: a social tariff for every eligible household, automatically, from the first of July, and the minister's office asks what it will take, by tomorrow. Tomás walks it down the map, layer by layer, and every element it touches has an owner. The agency is asked for the least, the wall holds, new rules get homes, the counter shows who the match would miss, and a data product gets a new column without breaking its contract, its readers found through lineage.
Builds on Rules with a home
Watch the film
Press Play, or pick a chapter. Turn on Pause and think to stop for one question at the end of chapters.
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Where next?
You've seen what a change in strategy means for the data. One more film in the series is on the way.
Think it through
The three Pause and think questions, for a class or a team. Open one to see the answer.
Take it apart, then make the call
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Take it apart: Walk it down →Make the call: 2 situationsEvery lab
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A map people and agents can read
Hōkūleʻa, 1976. A map kept in one tool, fed by other systems, reviewed and versioned, with every view generated from it. Agents draft; people confirm.