Reference no: EM132216244
You are working on a project where, starting from an extraction of a client’s historical data, your team needs to produce a model to be deployed to production. From the SOW, you had 8 weeks for DS work, starting on March 5th, and ending on April 27th. The client sent the data in 5 separate tables on March 13th, and upon validation from your team, a new extraction was requested, which was sent by the client on March 22nd. This new extraction still has some issues, but you believe it’s solvable on your side. Besides data issues, your team also realizes that there is no perfect joining condition across the 5 tables, and in particular with the table containing the labels.
On a tight deadline, with your small team already stretched thin, and struggling to deliver one model, you get word that the client is now requesting for a second model (one for card-present and another for card-not-present transactions) to go live on the same deadline.
How do you handle this situation:
How would you communicate and say to the project sponsor? Try to anticipate their rebuttal and contain it.
How would you communicate and say to the head of your company's DS team who isn't involved day-to-day with the project.
How would you communicate and say to your project team?