Category: Media
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Data and AI mini blogs
A brief reflection on Thoughtworks Australia Data & AI mini-blogs. From May 2021, we set ourselves a target to publish a short blog on a different AI, ML or data topic every week. Here’s the pitch from the landing page: Bite-sized content delivering valuable insights from Thoughtworkers who wrestle varied client problems week in and…
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Team Topologies x EMLT
To provide more resources around the excellent conversation we had with Matthew Skelton on the Stream of Teams podcast in late 2024, we collaborated on an article summarising our chat, which was based on the final chapter of Effective Machine Learning Teams (EMLT). The article titled Team Topologies in action: Effective structures for Machine Learning…
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Tech Lead Journal
The lastest in our series of podcasts on Effective Machine Learning Teams is now live on the excellent Tech Lead Journal by Henry Suryawirawan. Check out the episode titled Building Effective and Thriving ML Teams. It’s been fantastic to talk with many great names in technology recently about EMLT, and I think the variety of…
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Joe Reis show
I had a great chat with Joe Reis on The Joe Reis Show, along with one co-author of Effective Machine Learning Teams, David Tan. We covered the motivation for the book, scenarios where we’d helped teams address issues to become more effective, and the tools we’d developed from those solutions. We also talked about a…
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Stream of Teams
It was great to chat with Matthew Skelton about the intersection of Team Topologies and AI/ML product delivery – watch the recording. This was the subject of the final chapter of Effective Machine Learning Teams, in which we used the Team Topologies model to explore effectiveness at the level of “between teams”. We covered a…
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Hopsworks and multidisciplinary ML
I recently had a brief but fun chat with Hopsworks about the multidisciplinary nature of building machine learning products, as part of their 5-minute podcast series hosted by Rik Van Bruggen. See the transcript and video at 5-minute-interview-with-david-colls-nextdata. Rik and I talked about how David, Ada and I address this multidisciplinary perspective in our book…
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Effective ML Teams on Thoughtworks Tech Podcast
I recently recorded an episode of the Thoughtworks Technology Podcast with my Effective Machine Learning Teams co-authors Ada Leung and David Tan, hosted by Scott Shaw and Ken Mugrage. The episode is number 146 – Building at the intersection of machine learning and software engineering. It was great to chat about the book and share…
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EMLT Q&A
A fun Q&A with Thoughtworks on the drivers, key messages and writing process for Effective Machine Learning Teams (EMLT) with my fellow authors Ada and David. It’s neat to be featured alongside all the other many great books from Thoughtworks authors. Find the book, trial and purchase options at O’Reilly, and find yourself a nice…
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Effective Machine Learning Teams in print
My book Effective Machine Learning Teams is now in print! Building ML solutions requires multi-disciplinary collaboration. EMLT shows how to use design practices to identify the right products, how to apply good data science and software engineering practices to build products right, and how to structure ML teams and organisations so that they are right…
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Effective Machine Learning Teams
I’m very excited to be writing a book with my colleagues David Tan and Ada Leung. The topic and title Effective Machine Learning Teams was born from our combined work on team technical and delivery practices, and wider organisational patterns, applied to developing machine learning applications. The book has two landing pages where you can…