• A
  • A
  • A
  • ABC
  • ABC
  • ABC
  • А
  • А
  • А
  • А
  • А
Regular version of the site

Data Science Project Management in Small Teams

Student: Konchenko Kirill

Supervisor: Dirk Meissner

Faculty: Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge

Educational Programme: Science, Technology and Innovation Management and Policy (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2018

Nowadays data science is a rapidly-evolving field that transforms businesses around the world. With the great amounts of data generated by a wide range of activities, data science has become a tool to shape the look of products and services, give accurate predictions, assess the performance. Data science work is mostly carried out in a form of projects limited in time and scope. Teams are a base of project work. This thesis reviews a particular kind of teams – a small one, with greatly limited number of members. In this work, the effects of the team size on data science project work are assessed, and the practical side of team formation, workflow organization, communications within the team and outside of it, and the applicability of Agile frameworks are appraised. As a result, the set of conclusions about the work in small data science teams are made and recommendations to improve the processes are given.

Student Theses at HSE must be completed in accordance with the University Rules and regulations specified by each educational programme.

Summaries of all theses must be published and made freely available on the HSE website.

The full text of a thesis can be published in open access on the HSE website only if the authoring student (copyright holder) agrees, or, if the thesis was written by a team of students, if all the co-authors (copyright holders) agree. After a thesis is published on the HSE website, it obtains the status of an online publication.

Student theses are objects of copyright and their use is subject to limitations in accordance with the Russian Federation’s law on intellectual property.

In the event that a thesis is quoted or otherwise used, reference to the author’s name and the source of quotation is required.

Search all student theses