Guiding Data Mesh Lean Transformations

From Domain to Thin-Sliced Data Product MVP
Paulo Caroli

Guiding Data Mesh Lean Transformations

Guiding Data Mesh Lean Transformations

Paulo Caroli
🇬🇧 English
Advanced

Antwerp, Belgium
Carnot Wing
Total duration: 7h00

Timezone: Europe, Amsterdam
Wednesday June 10 09:30 - 17:30


Summary

Facilitating a successful Data Mesh Lean Transformation requires structured workshops, clear facilitation strategies, and alignment between business and technical teams. Many organizations struggle with onboarding teams into Data Mesh principles, defining thin slices, and ensuring incremental value delivery. This full-day, hands-on workshop guides participants through a complete Data Mesh Lean Transformation, following the exact step-by-step flow described in Paulo Caroli’s article “Guiding Data Mesh Lean Transformations: A Full Workshop Facilitation Example”.

The workshop follows the Double Diamond flow for Data Mesh (Exploration → Accelerate → Discovery → Lean Inception) and applies the DUTI approach (Domain, Use Case, Thin Slice, Increment) to avoid big upfront transformation and focus on early, validated outcomes.

Paulo facilitates the entire day using proven facilitation techniques, visual collaboration templates, and structured group exercises. Participants work in small groups and leave with concrete artifacts and a facilitation structure they can reuse in their own organisations.

For who?

This workshop is for Data Leaders, Data Product Managers, Data Architects, and Platform Engineers. It is ideal for enabling teams and facilitators involved in Data Mesh adoption.

What you'll learn

Learning Outcomes

Using a shared sample domain, participants will experience how to:

  • select a suitable domain to onboard into the mesh,
  • compare and prioritise multiple use cases,
  • identify and map data products,
  • thin-slice a prioritised use case through further Discovery, and
  • run a Lean Inception to define an MVP and an incremental delivery plan.

Topics covered

A sample domain is selected in advance. Participants will:

  • compare multiple use cases,
  • run a collaborative prioritisation session,
  • thin-slice the selected use case,
  • deepen understanding through Discovery, and
  • conduct a Lean Inception to define an MVP and incremental delivery.

All slides and visual templates used during the workshop will be shared with participants after the session.

Prerequisites

  • The workshop is in English.
  • No software installation is required. We will work with post-its.
  • Basic familiarity with Data Mesh concepts is needed.
  • Participants should be comfortable working collaboratively in groups.
Paulo Caroli

About Paulo Caroli

Run better workshops. Make successful products. Build happier teams. Paulo Caroli is the creator of Lean Inception and the author of Lean Inception, Team OKR in Action, and Product Backlog Building. With decades of experience helping organisations align strategy, discovery, and delivery, he facilitates workshops that turn complex problems into thin-slice plans and measurable outcomes. In recent years, he has applied Lean Inception and product thinking to Data Mesh adoption—guiding data leaders and domain teams from domain selection to their first data product MVP.

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Guiding Data Mesh Lean Transformations

Paulo Caroli
🇬🇧 English
Advanced

Antwerp, Belgium
Carnot Wing
Total duration: 7h00

Timezone: Europe, Amsterdam
Wednesday June 10 09:30 - 17:30


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