Here you can find information related to the Buffer Data Team. If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please open an issue and ping someone in the Data Team.
If you spot something out of date or incomplete, reach out to @davidgasquez and let him know! 😄
Our mission is to make data a driver of growth, innovation, and quality.
Making data a driver of Innovation means discovering new opportunities, providing new insight into existing data, leveraging our abundance of data within our products, and allowing people to work smarter.
Making data a driver of Growth means we exploit new opportunities using data and maximize the results of our efforts driving more revenue.
Making data a driver of Quality means we use data to eliminate our blindspots, accurately measure our business reality, and minimize the risk of changes to our products.
- Facilitate, define, and implement of high growth Pirate Metrics.
- Create end to end experimentation system for Awareness & Acquisition.
- Pay down technical debt to be within quality tolerances.
Slack is the place to have social, real time conversations with online people.
We work in 6-week cycles. We have a list of pitches that reflects our roadmap. Pitches are ideas of new features, changes to existing features, or any other product development we think it should be considered.
The next sections will give an overview of the processes and tools we use to work, plan and communicate.
Useful information to know as a remote data team.
- Communications: Guidelines to smooth communications.
- Meetings: Description of the main meetings and related information.
Our set of development practices for an awesome data team! This is also for anyone wanting to either work with some kind of data, or to contribute directly to an existing project.
- Workflow: Outlines the day to day flow of the data team.
We also have a set of best practices and recommendations:
- Working with Data: General conventions when collecting and using data.
- SQL Style Guide: We follow these style guidelines when writing SQL.
- Documentation Guide: Provides some advice for building, and writing documentation.