Monday, August 3, 2026

How long will this data modeling project take?

 


I was working with a Data Engineering executive yesterday on estimating the size of a data modeling effort. Calling her an "engineering manager" doesn't get to her depth, so "executive" will have to do. She's a serious software engineer who knows her stuff, and we've both worked on data warehouse projects for years at the same company, and we've worked with the same people off and on for at least six years. But she's still a little mystified at how to estimate a data modeling effort, and even though I've written thousands upon thousands of complex sentences, that Gemini can thankfully distill down to 25 words... well she just hasn't had time to read them all.

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