- Tags:: 🗞️Articles, Data Science, My management principles, values, and practices
- Author:: Alek K Gold (Solutions Engineer at RStudio)
- Link:: Alex K Gold: Managing the First Year
- Source date:: 2022-01-03
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A good overview on managing a Data Science team.
But more senior people on the team quickly matched or exceeded my skills. The primary relationship between my data science skills and my skills as a data science manager was that my technical skills helped me ask the right questions. Ultimately, my direct reports succeeded and learned more when they were asked questions than given answers.
Meetings, a necessary evil (and gives obvious advice on them):
My first, and most obvious, observation about being a manager was that nothing I did was a solo activity. In the work world, any gathering of two or more people is a meeting. Thus, meetings were my main tool as a manager.