Self-serve analytics is the goal for many data teams. But Saish Redkar, Senior Product Manager at DataRobot, cautions that “Without proper data governance self serve product analytics is a myth.” Explaining that, “Anything which keeps your data more organized and data quality consistent, be it any tools or processes comes under data governance. But not everyone is willing to take the data governance first approach in their implementations.

So teams are always looking to get to their MVP of event tracking and create dashboards for their stakeholders ASAP. And it's tempting to roll out data governance on the fly, but the earlier you implement it, the richer the rewards it will give you.”

This is a snippet from 7 Lessons from 7 Years using Amplitude in which Saish shares his insights from using Amplitude and from leading over 1300 discussions on data governance and product analytics on the forum.