Do data science teams use (or think they use) an agile data science team process framework? To help find out, my student (Sucheta Lahiri) recently presented an academic paper that reported on data science agility across 16 organizations. The key takeaway was that even if your team thinks you are […]
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Agile Business Intelligence Project Management Best Practices Data by itself is often useless. However, by transforming the data into human understandable insights, organizations can harness the power of data to make meaningful decisions that drive outcomes. But making this happen is easier said than done. And traditional BI approaches often […]
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Data Driven Scrum (DDS) enables lean data science project agility and addresses the key challenges that have been identified when using Scrum in a data science context. This post describes five common questions teams might encounter when trying to implement DDS, as well as how to address these challenges. 1 […]
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A data science process can make or break a team. Indeed, we see time and time again that many of the reasons behind data science project failures are not technical in nature but rather stem from process-related issues. Simply throwing compute power and PhDs at the problem doesn’t work. Rather, […]
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The following is an interview by Jeff Saltz with Hector Rangel. Hector, a certified DSPA Team Lead, is a Consultant and Data Science lead at Arena Analytics, a small consulting company located in Mexico. Jeff: Can you tell me a bit about yourself? Hector: I’m an industrial engineer and a business […]
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The following is an interview by Jeff Saltz with Dr Thibaut Jombart (who is a certified DSPA Team Lead). Thibaut is an Associate Professor in Outbreak Analytics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical / Imperial College London (LSHTM / ICL) He is also a Senior Data Scientist for […]
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Data Driven Scrum™ (DDS) is an agile framework specifically designed for data science teams. In short, DDS aims to improve a data science team’s collaboration and communication. The Data Science Process Alliance created Data Driven Scrum to address the fact that other well-known agile approaches (such as often Scrum and […]
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So are there new emerging approaches that are data science native? Microsoft’s Team Data Science Process (TDSP), Domino Data Lab’s Data Science Life Cycle, and the Data Science Process Alliance’s Data Driven Scrum (DDS) are approaches that are both data science native and agile. There are pros and cons specific to each approach but they share some fundamental principles.
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When teams try to have a data driven agile approach, they often try to use an existing framework, such as Scrum or Kanban. Yet, there are key challenges teams have in leveraging these frameworks. Therefore, the Data Science Process Alliance created an alternative framework called Data Driven Scrum which is […]
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Do you think data science should be agile? When framing agility in the context of delivering usable insights frequently, iterating on these insights, and validating the outcomes, I think all of us would say “yes”. Yet, how do we achieve this? Even more basic, what does agile data science even […]
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