Keep Application Teams Posted About Data Science Projects

In some cases the results of a data science project might lead to the creation of vast quantities of useful data. If the resulting data is used by applications, it is necessary to keep application engineering teams informed in advance so that they can be prepared for the increase in available data. They may have to invest in improving their infrastructure and performance to accommodate the new data.

Think of data as water and applications as the hydro electric dam that uses the water to generate electricity. A sudden unexpected deluge of water might overwhelm the turbines. So keep those responsible informed about the possible deluge.

This could be a key responsibility of a product manager working with a data science team.