Lineage explorers beat tribal notebooks
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Pipeline graphs that live in people's heads do not survive vacation handoffs. Ad-hoc docs rot. A "harmless" bronze rename still nukes gold because nobody saw the edge.
Build a small lineage explorer over metadata you already emit: notebooks, MLVs, shortcuts, pipelines. Read-only exploration is enough for v1. Treat lineage UX as platform product, not a slide in an architecture deck.
Figure 1. Lineage that lives in people's heads does not survive a rename. Explore metadata before you change identities. Source: Microsoft Learn: lineage in Fabric.
Figure 2. A thin read-only explorer over notebooks, MLVs, shortcuts, and pipelines is platform product, not a slide. Source: Microsoft Learn: lineage in Fabric.