You hired engineers to solve complex problems, not clean up spreadsheets. Yet too often, their time gets sucked into data grunt work—copying files, fixing formats, tracking down missing values.
Every hour spent on admin is a lost hour of analysis. And in a world where fast, accurate insights drive competitive edge, that’s a problem you can’t afford.
Let’s fix it.
Excel isn’t harmless. It’s quietly wrecking your engineering velocity.
If your team is merging CSVs by hand, patching inconsistent fields, or cleaning rogue inputs, you’re burning time and morale.
Fix it fast:
Think of manual data wrangling as technical debt. Pay it down.
Bad documentation kills flow. Engineers shouldn’t need to Slack five people to decode a field name.
Make it easier:
Clear docs are clarity on tap. Engineers will thank you.
Nothing derails a sprint like discovering junk data halfway through an analysis.
Build in confidence:
Every automated check is one less fire drill.
Engineers aren’t human search engines. Yet they’re constantly pulled into random data requests.
Change the game:
Protect your team’s focus like it’s your growth engine—because it is.
Disconnected engineers default to admin work. Engaged ones drive impact.
Loop them in:
When engineers understand the “why,” they double down on the work that matters.
Your engineers are high-leverage talent. Admin work is a tax on their brilliance.
Automate the repetitive. Standardize the messy. Document the smart way. Shield them from distractions. Plug them into strategy.
Do that—and you’ll unlock the real value of your data team: insights that drive growth.
At 3 Dot Digital, we built Citation to help engineers skip the grunt work and get straight to analysis.
Let’s talk about how to unlock your team’s brainpower—and start shipping insights that actually move the needle.
