Can you walk me through the process you use to set up successful projects and how you ensure their success?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

S (Situation):
Successful data projects often fail not due to tech complexity, but because of
unclear scope, misaligned stakeholders, or drifting ownership.
I learned this early on while leading a metrics standardization effort across
multiple product lines that initially lacked traction.

T (Task):
My goal was to build a repeatable framework that sets projects up for clarity,
momentum, and measurable outcomes.

A (Action):
I begin with a short alignment phase—defining success criteria, owners,
dependencies, and timelines—captured in a simple one-pager and reviewed with all
stakeholders.
During execution, I ensure tight feedback loops through regular check-ins,
visible dashboards, and fast response to scope or priority shifts.

R (Result):
This approach has helped ship complex initiatives—like schema versioning or
self-serve pipeline frameworks—on time and with strong adoption.
It also builds team confidence, as they can see progress, risks, and impact
clearly throughout the lifecycle.

Anonymous · Answer

Ensuring the requirements have been defined and is scoped for any technical
constraints. Understand the need date of project completion so we understand
time constraints. Also need to understand if there are any resource constraints.
Once all are understood, defining a plan to execute to ensure stakeholders
understand responsibilities for the execution. Ensure that there are points
during the project/task timeline for stakeholders to gather to re-align or
discuss any issues.

Anonymous · Answer

The project team needs people who can:
 * Understand what the business needs: They can take the business goals and
   figure out what the technology needs to do to achieve those goals.
 * Plan the technical "how-to": They can come up with a technical plan (the
   strategy) for building the solution.
 * Make the plan a reality: They can work hard and carefully (diligently) to
   build what they planned and deliver the expected results.

Anonymous · Answer

Okay a successful project I think has three main ingredients. 1. The criticality
of the project should be obvious to leadership. I've seen multiple projects in
my career that are truly important and can move the needle for the business but
that opinion is not shared by product leaders and those projects end up not ever
seeing the light of day. The next thing is the project needs to be stuffed with
folks that are able to work through the business requirements to formulate a
technical strategy and see that Vision through and deliver results diligently.
This will also need the right stakeholders to be involved from the get-go. The
third thing is very precise project management and execution project that
routinely see slips or causes churn to the rest of the system by not keeping up
to the Quality Bar that is expected or by eroding trust with stakeholders it's
not a successful project so ensuring that key decisions are made carefully and
quickly, impediments to progress are demolished swiftly are critical. Excellent
execution also means we're ready for unexpected surprises, changes in direction
etc.

Anonymous · Answer

Gather both functional and non-functional requirements. Design the architecture,
framework and decide on the tech stack. Break down the project into achievable
sprints and keep up to deadlines

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