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title: "How EasyJet Scaled Governance with an MVP Approach"
url: "https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/easyjet-mvp-approach/"
description: "Shivprasad Nayak from EasyJet explains how starting with simpler domains and fewer metrics proves value faster than tackling everything at once."
keywords: "atlan, data governance, regovern 2025, regovern watch center"
---

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How EasyJet Scaled Governance with an MVP Approach is a highlight clip from Re:Govern 2025, published in Atlan's Re:Govern Watch Center. Shivprasad Nayak from EasyJet explains how starting with simpler domains and fewer metrics proves value faster than tackling everything at once.

Watch it at https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/easyjet-mvp-approach/ (free; the page asks for an email after two minutes of viewing).

## Speakers

- **Shivaprasad (Shiv) Nayak**, Head of Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI Architecture, EasyJet. Shiv leads EasyJet's data transformation with application-first pragmatism. He's revolutionized crew scheduling, driven company-wide AI literacy programs, and delivered agentic systems across flight and business operations.

## Companies

- **EasyJet**: EasyJet is a British low-cost airline operating 1,207 routes across 38 countries and 164 airports. With flight operations and customer care generating massive data volumes, EasyJet is deploying AI and agentic systems to transform customer experience, crew scheduling, and operational resilience at scale.

## What's inside

Instead of "build it and they will come," EasyJet works backwards from business demand in specific domains. They started with customer marketing - defining what "customer" means, differentiating holiday from airline customers, and mapping metrics to data assets. By building one end-to-end use case (a single traveler view) with definitions, lineage, and searchable business glossary, they proved value before scaling to other domains.

Key takeaways:

- Start with simpler domains that have fewer metrics rather than jumping into everything at once across the organization
- Minimum viable product approach proves value quickly, building confidence before expanding to more complex areas
- Product-driven approach works: pick one specific business use case (like customer marketing or single traveler view) and go end-to-end
- Work backwards from where business demand exists rather than building governance infrastructure and hoping people come
- Once one domain shows clear value (searchable definitions, lineage, metric relationships), scaling to other domains becomes easier

## Related

- [All Re:Govern 2025 sessions and highlights: the Re:Govern Watch Center](https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/)
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