From the course: Leading Teams Working with Data: Pitfalls and Best Practices

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Version control

Version control

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Version control

- Have you ever been working with a team on a presentation or report only to lose track of which version was the most current? This is a common problem when working with data, especially with teams and it's called version control. I've seen this for more than a dozen years when I was at McKinsey, but also in my own consulting firm, Prestige Economics, and in doing research at the Futurist Institute. Almost every organization has this risk of losing track of the most current version, of version control issues. One of the best ways to reduce the risk of version control issues is to use a naming convention that's consistent and allows you to see very transparently what the most recent version of a document is. One of the best ways to do this is to begin the naming convention of a document with the year, the month, the day, and then the time. That way, if there are issues, you can immediately see which version might have a…

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