From the course: Learning Data Science: Using Agile Methodology
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Focus on just a few meetings
From the course: Learning Data Science: Using Agile Methodology
Focus on just a few meetings
- Your data science team will typically want to work in two week sprints. The team will have a lot to do, so they need some structure, to stay efficient. Remember that you'll go through every area of the data science life cycle in each sprint. To work at that pace, the team needs a consistent amount of time to work. They won't be able to attend many open-ended meetings. Each meeting will need a separate timebox. A timebox is pretty much what it sounds like. It's a box of time that the team agrees upon before the meeting. Let's say your team has a meeting with a one-hour timebox. Whatever they decide at the end of that timebox will last until the end of the sprint. You can never reschedule or follow up on a time-boxed meeting. They start and then they end when the timebox expires. In most organizations, meetings aren't a bad thing. Meetings are a good way to bring up issues and reinforce culture. The challenge with meetings is that they can add a lot of unpredictability. You never know…
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