Building A Successful Relationship With Stakeholders

Data scientists can ensure project success by moving beyond purely technical work and building a strong relationship with business stakeholders. This involves collaboratively refining vague business problems, like preventing fraud, into specific, actionable requirements and clear success criteria. When presenting solutions, it is crucial to frame performance in terms of business KPIs, such as money saved or generated, rather than abstract model metrics like recall or F1 score. Building trust also requires incorporating model explainability to justify decisions and ensuring presentations are tailored to the audience's business-oriented priorities.