dbt Champions: What we learned from founding members
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Six months into the dbt Champions program, the first 30 founding members show that a community grows through encouragement, Big Projects, and helping members find their people. The post shares what the program learned from this initial cohort about building and sustaining an engaged practitioner community.
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