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DATA-CONTRACTS5 MIN READ

Build a Minimum Viable Contract

Create a minimum viable data contract with purpose, grain, critical fields, quality rules, owner, and SLA.

pipeline_coverage_daily feeds a weekly RevOps dashboard and has broken twice, but the team cannot wait for a full enterprise standard. Minimum viable contract: purpose, grain, critical fields, quality rules, owner, SLA, change notice The common trap is writing a schema-only stub because it feels quick. That would not have prevented the recent breaks, which were caused by a coverage_status meaning change and late refresh, not missing columns. Purpose and consumer Purpose: weekly pipeline-coverage dashboard for RevOps planning. Consumer: RevOps Analytics and Sales leadership. Purpose keeps the contract scoped to the decision it protects. Grain and fields Grain: one row per…

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