At most every beach with vacationers, early mornings mean beach clean-up. As quickly as the sun rises, the activity begins. It doesn’t last long, but it happens every day. Consistently.
From tractors sifting the sand to remove litter and trash to the removal of sargassum from the shoreline, the work is to get the beach ready for the next day of sun-and-surf lovers.
The consistency of this work, along with the resiliency of mother nature and humans to create the work in the first place, are similar to the issues of keeping advancement databases hygienic.
Each day, people input information into the database. Some of it is helpful. But, some of the information is the equivalent of database litter and sargassum. It’s unhelpful data. Or, it’s put in the wrong location. Or, it’s entirely wrong data.
If we aren’t cleaning the database a little at a time, consistently, the litter and sargassum will become overwhelming.
And, just like a beach, we won’t want to use it, even though we wish we could.
Starting this morning, let’s build a plan to keep our beaches – and our databases – clean. It only takes a little bit of work each day. Consistently.
