From the course: Learning Data Science: Manage Your Team
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Keep the team from wandering
From the course: Learning Data Science: Manage Your Team
Keep the team from wandering
- As we've seen, there's a real danger when the team quickly reaches consensus. Rapid agreement stifles new ideas. It's also a sign that the team has blind spots and could fall prey to groupthink. On the flip side, your team could run into entirely different challenge. How do you know when your team is spending too much time on the wrong question? When should your team abandon a question and start another? This is the opposite challenge. Instead of everyone agreeing, they continue to ask questions about the wrong thing. The team ends up wandering instead of exploring. In many ways, this is much more difficult challenge than consensus. You want your team to feel the freedom to wander. At the same time, you need to focus on valuable insights. You don't want to stifle innovation by focusing on delivery, yet the team has to deliver. I once worked on a project for a large home improvement retailer. They were trying to determine if someone was a regular person or professional remodeler…
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