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Knowledge Transfer: An Approach For Executing it Effectively
It’s Monday. Just when you think everything is going smoothly in your IT group, a key resource notifies you of their departure from your organization. To make matters more pressing, you only have 2-weeks to extract all of their knowledge and make it accessible. Maybe this person is a software developer who built a key system from scratch, a...
Daily Check-In and Status Email Check-Ins
When projects get rolling and eventually when the team is in crunch time, there is a strong need to keep the PM/BAs/Developers all on the same page. To that end, here is what we do: Morning and Evening Check-Ins: Review the open issues/bugs/next steps Schedule the day of bug fixing, testing and any other analysis work needed Detailed Status...
Welfare in the Exponential Age with Azheem Azhar
One of the challenges we face are the need to innovate and transform our institutions to be more dynamic and regenerative. Whether it be the WHO, World Bank, UN, or a government agency, etc. -- these institutions were made for a world that was far more stable; they were designed in a world where rapid pace of technological was not a part of the...
Data Portability: NYPD vs. Palantir
The concept of data portability is all too often simplified to the question "Can we have our data in a machine readable format?" At best, this ensures the data can be loaded to a new system and at worst the data can be added to a data warehouse. Palantir, Peter Thiels company, provides a lens into the importance of "thinking from the end" with...
Rules of Machine Learning: Best Practices for ML Engineering
An impressive list of 24 ML engineering rules! martin.zinkevich.org/rules_of_ml/rules_of_ml.pdf