The business doesn’t want

The business team never wants a dashboard, pipeline, or ML model.

If you are asking them what dashboard you should design then they will often be wrong.

If you ask them what metrics they want in an ML model they will often be wrong.

If you ask them what data sources they need incorporated in the data model they will often be wrong.

But.

If you are asking them what the business problem they need so solve is then they will very often be right.

If you ask them what decisions they need to make. And what information would help them make that decision, then they will very often be right.

If you ask them what the biggest barrier is to hitting their business goal this quarter, they will very often be right.

If you are frustrated that “the business doesn’t know what they want”, then it might very well be the case that you are asking about the wrong wants.

Requirement gathering fails when we stop asking questions.

I’m here,

Sawyer

from The Data Shop