Team X-Ray · free diagnostic

Your best person is holding four jobs. The org chart calls that dedication.

Describe who holds which seat on your data project. A rule engine built on twenty years of programme scars reads the structure the way a veteran would: the gaps, the collisions, and the person about to burn out.

X-ray my team

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The project

Stage

Who holds each seat?

Initials are enough. The same initials on two seats is exactly what the X-Ray looks for.

Executive Sponsor

Air cover, budget authority, political shield

Program / Delivery Lead

Owns the plan, the RAID log, and the room

Data Governance Lead

Policy authority, stewardship orchestration

Data Owner (Business)

Accountable for a domain's truth

Data Steward

Day-to-day data quality and rules enforcement

SME / Business Analyst

Translates business reality into requirements

Solution Architect

Platform choices, data model, integration design

Integration / Data Engineer

Builds pipelines, connectors, transformations

Data Quality Analyst

Profiles, measures, monitors data health

Change & Adoption Lead

Training, comms, resistance management

Junior Analyst / Trainee

Learning on the job, needs mentoring and guard rails

Assign at least one seat, or load the sample.

Six ways a data team quietly fails

The Hero

One person carrying too many heavy roles. Beloved by leadership, one resignation away from disaster.

The Conflict

Data Owner and Data Steward collapsed into one chair. Who checks the checker?

The Phantom

The Business Analyst everyone assumes is on it, available two afternoons a week.

The Silent Sponsor

Executive air cover that exists on the slide but not in the room where budgets die.

The Invisible Change Cost

Change management as a shared afterthought while the rollout date holds firm.

The Learning Curve Tax

Critical seats held by people still learning them, with no guard rails in sight.

On top of the patterns, every person holding two or more seats is checked against a compatibility matrix: which pairings survive, which turn dangerous under pressure, and which are structurally fatal no matter how good the person is.