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Understanding product delivery

Product delivery involves ensuring that a product or service is developed in a timely and cost-effective way, meeting the user needs.

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

  • manage your contribution to tasks to fit in with the work of your wider team
2. Working

You can:

  • show an awareness of the differences between delivery methods, such as Agile and waterfall, and can propose the most appropriate method to deliver each product
  • manage your contribution to tasks to fit in with the work of your wider team
3. Practitioner

You can:

  • understand the differences between delivery methods, such as Agile and waterfall, and can choose the most appropriate method to deliver each product
  • define the minimum viable product (MVP) and support decisions about priorities
  • work with specialists in multidisciplinary teams to smoothly deliver data science products into the organisation
4. Expert

You can:

  • understand the differences between delivery methods, such as Agile and waterfall, and can set out how your team should use and adapt these methods
  • lead a team through the different phases of the product delivery life cycle
  • collaborate with the product manager to influence the direction of work
  • identify and involve relevant teams to smoothly deliver data science products into the organisation, ensuring these products inform decision making
  • ensure products are monitored, maintained and continually improved, engaging and working with others where necessary
  • have oversight of any data science features implemented within products or services

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

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Role levels that expect this skill

Role levelRoleBandExpected level
Trainee data scientistData scientist4Awareness
Associate data scientistData scientist5Working
Data scientistData scientist6Practitioner
Principal data scientistData scientist7Practitioner
Lead data scientistData scientist8aExpert
Head of data scienceData scientist8bPractitioner