Coaching for Data, Analytics, AI Leaders (11–20)

Principles and patterns to build winning performance+team

Sandeep Uttamchandani
4 min readMar 6, 2023

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If you are leading teams responsible for Data, Analytics, Data Science, or AI — this blog series is for you! Throughout my career leading teams in Data Engineering, Data Analytics/Science, and AI in both startup and large company environments, I have uncovered principles and patterns that have proven to be effective. In this series, I will be sharing these principles and patterns.

#11 Establish clear Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for data

For business-critical metrics/dashboards/models, ensure there are clear Service Level Agreements (SLAs) established with source data teams. SLAs need to include refresh lags, quality checks, incident response times.

#12 Establish a clear promotion process to solidify insights and models

Metrics and dashboards typically begin as prototypes, but eventually, the business begins to use them and rely on them for decision-making. To ensure accuracy and consistency, it is…

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Sandeep Uttamchandani

Sharing 20+ years of real-world exec experience leading Data, Analytics, AI & SW Products. O’Reilly book author. Founder AIForEveryone.org. #Mentor #Advise