Organizing Dataiku Projects & Folders For Multi Departments Usage

lina

Hi,

What are the approaches you follow and the best practices for organizing and structuring Dataiku projects and folders for the use of 60+ employees from different departments and business functions?

Best regards,

Manuel

Hi Lina,

It is hard to give specific advice, because it really depends on your projects and your organisation structure.

Perhaps a point that you are missing is that the displayed projects are primarily governed by the security framework, i.e., a user only sees the projects they have access to. So, before thinking of folders, you should think who has access to which projects:

• At Dataiku, in one of our DSS instances, the security groups match our roles at Dataiku (customer_sucess, data_science, etc.), so depending on your role, you will only have access to the projects relevant to your role;
• At some customers, security groups are organised around access to data sources, so a user only sees projects with data they can see
• Every customer has to tailor the security framework to their specific needs

You should also review the Workspaces capability, a recent feature with v10. It is a way to organise related assets from multiple projects:

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Finally, other best practices such as naming conventions and documentation are also useful to get projects organised. Some suggestions on this page: https://knowledge.dataiku.com/latest/courses/governance/collaboration/best-practices-collaboration.html.

I hope this helps.