data-team-positioning SKILL.md skillA
data-team-positioning from hollandkevint/data-product-operator is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add hollandkevint/data-product-operator/data-team-positioning@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- hollandkevint/data-product-operator
- Path
skills/data-team-positioning/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Nov 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 20, 2026
- Size
- 4,608 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Position data teams as strategic partners, not order-takers. The organizational "why" behind doing discovery work. Use when discussing team positioning, value exchange, demand shaping, escaping the order-taker trap, or when someone asks "how do we stop being order-takers?" or "how does the data team become strategic?".
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
## Three Stances Data teams operate in one of three positions. Most are stuck at position 1. ### 1. Request Taker "Tell us what to build." The backlog is a queue of stakeholder requests. Prioritization is based on who asked loudest or most recently. The team is measured on throughput: stories completed, dashboards shipped, tickets closed. **Why it fails:** The team builds what was asked for, not what's needed. No discovery means no understanding of the actual problem. Stakeholders lose trust when delivered products don't solve their real need. ### 2. Request Shaper "You asked for X, here's why Y is better." The team pushes back on requests, translating vague asks into buildable specs. Uses `stakeholder-alignment` patterns to reframe requests around decisions and outcomes. **Why it's not enough:** Still reactive. The team only works on problems that stakeholders bring to them. Important problems that stakeholders don't know to ask about go unsolved. ### 3. Demand Shaper …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add hollandkevint/data-product-operator/data-team-positioning@sha256:123e7fbd0d87077cThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3txenbqcgli7nt4q)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Feb 20, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, about one every 256 days.
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| v0.1.0 latest | 2026-11-03 | 2939ae2 | 4,608 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-02-20 | b2b7f45 | 4,603 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
hollandkevint/data-product-operator · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3txenbqcgli7nt4q GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=hollandkevint/data-product-operator/data-team-positioning GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/123e7fbd0d87077c8ad0050ba4d217bc42bcc7450ae5982989db979cae67f132
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