Driving Business Adoption
Until now, we have focused on the technical skills essential to an analytics engineer’s work. However, the success of these professionals also depends on correctly identifying business requirements and ensuring the adoption of data projects.
Gathering requirements is the first step of any product development project. At this stage, soft skills such as clear communication, active listening, and project management are fundamental. By correctly identifying business priorities and quick wins, data teams eventually deliver relevant data products that the business embraces.
In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:
- Defining analytics translation
- Scoping analytics use cases
- Ensuring business adoption