Part 2. The manager: Nurturing a team

With demonstrated capabilities and virtues to manage technical projects, you may be ready to take on the responsibility of managing team members or managing broader scopes of technical projects as a staff data scientist. As a people manager or a staff data scientist, your organization relies on you to empower your DS team to be as productive as possible across many projects. Your team members depend on you to empower them to do the best work of their careers. How can you meet and exceed such high expectations?

With broader scope comes greater responsibility. Your responsibilities do not stop at managing people. The purpose of managing a team is to supervise the building of technical capabilities. The approach is to build a capable professional team through hiring, coaching, and performance managing data scientists. The team will look to their manager and staff data scientists as role models for domain expertise and technical insights. We discuss the purpose and the many approaches in chapter 4.

To produce positive impact with DS, you can nurture the DS virtues, described previously in chapter 3, in ethics, rigor, and attitude within the team, as well as practice additional people management virtues, which we address in chapter 5.

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