Engineering leadership knows the standard playbook for product teams: the Product Trio, the Spotify model, outcome-based roadmaps, and so on. I've seen teams adopt these practices and still struggle when they add responsibility for advanced algorithms -- search, recommendations, predictive modeling, or generative AI -- …

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When building a complex system, it’s often helpful to think about the design of that system using patterns and abstractions. Architects and software engineers do so frequently, and the experience of implementing predictive modeling pipelines has recently led to a variety of …

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You’re a data scientist, and you’ve got a predictive model — great work! Now what? In many cases, you need to hook it up to some sort of large, complex software product so that users can get access to the predictions. Think of LinkedIn’s People You May Know, which mines your …