Any other generalist EMs/PLs/Ms/SMs here who find themselves most often leading teams with specialist data resources (ML or stats-heavy, Gen AI, or pilot MVP/deployments) vs traditional strategy?

What have you found works really well for you as a generalist leading teams with specialists? Or specialists, what have you wished the generalist team leader knew or did differently?

Examples: Getting 1-on-1s to understand specialsts' work, providing lots of business context, etc.?

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Don’t treat building a solution the same as building a PPT deck - if you do this, you are 90% of the way there already.

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That makes sense, thanks!

I'll add some more: being very output focused and discussing how the two workstreams' outputs can intersect / line up and the format/timing/nature of any handoffs; not being afraid to question other teams' outputs just because you may not understand the inputs or process that went into them; working together to define project cadence and deliverable schedules.

Context on this is I got a reputation for being a 'quant' (in a very general sense) based on some market model / light stats work I did; and then what 'quant' meant to the general pool basically was anything to do with numbers, models, and 'technology,' lol. So just looking to get better at this weird little niche of a generalist working heavily with specialist groups!

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