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From analyst to team lead in 2 years: the 4 hard lessons that turned a struggling data science team into one of the company's top-rated departments.
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Becoming a data science manager exposed gaps no amount of coding skill could fill. After inheriting a team with rock-bottom satisfaction scores and a reputation for unreliable results, I built a 4-pillar framework: fixing output quality, protecting focus with a duty-rotation system, raising the technical bar through knowledge sharing, and overhauling how the team planned and got recognized. Rework dropped from 50% to under 10%. Satisfaction climbed from last place to one of the top departments company-wide.