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Eugene Yan offers guidance on data team vision and roadmap creation

Eugene Yan, a writer on data leadership, responded to a reader named E who sought guidance on establishing a vision and roadmap for a new data team. Yan suggested a process involving stakeholder interviews to identify key problems, followed by a cost-benefit analysis to prioritize solutions. He recommended documenting these prioritized problems in one-pagers using the Why, What, How framework to gain stakeholder buy-in and integrate them into the team's roadmap. AI

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  1. Eugene Yan TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Mailbag: How to Define a Data Team's Vision and Roadmap

    I'm heading into a team lead role and would like to define the vision and roadmap.