You survey your team as they tap away diligently on their MacBooks scattered around their cubicle. You have been promoted to the position your old boss held and now have a small team of data scientists. Some are at standing desks, some are at minipods, and some are huddled around a small conference table in the middle of your area.
Your boss, the VP of Connected Services, approaches down the hallway with a pleasant smile. He makes eye contact as soon as you see him.
"How is the team settling in?" he asks. You give him positive status updates, and he nods and murmurs his approval.
"I had a thought," he says, "Your team does great work. But the speed that they deliver analytics is the same now as it was a few months ago. Is there anything we can do that would help them iterate faster?"
You smile with an
what an interesting thought
expression. You have been thinking the same thing for weeks.
"Most of the time spent for any analysis that we do...