From the course: Problem Identification and Solution Design for Data Scientists
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Leave these interviews for last
From the course: Problem Identification and Solution Design for Data Scientists
Leave these interviews for last
- [Instructor] I'm going to suggest that you leave the interviews with the subject matter experts and the frontline team for well after you speak to the project sponsor and the IT team. Part of this is my experience, but there's a specific reason this works better. First of all, scheduling time with these groups is difficult. They're busy. They may be in other buildings. Most of all though, it's because you need to be prepared. I consistently find that they're very nice, but vague, speculative questions or comments about five different directions that the project could go in, don't go over very well. You might even get explicit questions about, has this been approved, or when will this launch? I'd avoid that kind of conversation, but if you seemingly don't know the names of management that they mention, or if you don't seem to know your way around their department yet, you could find that they are much less forthcoming. So when you talk to SMEs or the frontline team, be super prepared…
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