Back in Oct 2024, I posted this article on what we were learning after a year of real-world Fabric projects, and one line from it still holds up: “Organizations come in all shapes and sizes, with various needs and different appetites for simplicity, complexity and sophistication. I’ve always been a bit shy about asking my consulting clients how ‘mature’ their business or IT teams are, but this is honestly the most accurate term.”
Maturity isn’t about company size — it’s how nimbly you can move and how much rigor your culture actually needs and wants. Overshoot it and you get process for its own sake; undershoot it and good ideas run without guardrails. The real question is whether your culture lets you move too fast, too slow, or efficiently — and that’s the lens for the assessment below.
Read on for Paul’s thoughts.