Leadership Skills of Effective Program Managers on Data Science Teams w/ Ted Way at Microsoft (Episode 110) #DataTalk
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In this week’s #DataTalk, we chat with Ted Way about his work on machine learning projects and ways he successfully manages his teams at Microsoft.
Topics of this chat include:
- Critical roles of the product manager (and setting the direction for engineering teams)
- How to recognize and overcome bias in product design
- Finding the data science role that fits your unique talents and interests
- How to effectively listen to customers (and stakeholders) to improve products
- Knowing what metrics actually matter to your team and leaders
- How to prioritize feature requests (and choose product improvements that scale)
- Why it’s important to step back to help you focus on projects and KPIs that actually matter
- Strategies for connecting and communicating with senior leaders
- How to build and nurture trust with those on your team
- How to deal with product failures (and knowing when to quit or keep going)
- Advice for managing remote workers
- How to write a data science resume that will stand out from the rest
- And more …
About Ted Way
Ted Way is a senior program manager on the AI and Advanced Architectures team at Microsoft, with the mission to accelerate AI and other workloads in the cloud and edge. The team’s innovations have made Azure one of the fastest public clouds with accelerated networking and have dramatically reduced search latencies for Bing. This technology is also now available to users of Azure’s AI Platform.
He holds B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering, MS degrees in electrical engineering (signal processing) and biomedical engineering, and a PhD in biomedical engineering, all from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. His dissertation research was on “spell check for radiologists,” a computer-aided diagnosis system to classify lung nodules on thoracic CT scans.
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