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On a recent engagement, I was juggling three parallel tasks: cleaning a messy CRM export (500k+ records), doing exploratory analysis on product usage, and building a quick retention dashboard ahead of a leadership review. Everything was “urgent,” so I sat down with the lead data scientist and ranked by impact and dependency. We agreed the dashboard was the hard deadline, so I scoped it to a minimal but reliable version using only the cleanest data sources. I time-boxed the CRM cleaning to 90-minute blocks each morning and documented data issues as GitHub tickets so others could jump in. For the exploratory work, I set expectations that I’d deliver a one-page readout, not a polished model. I shared a simple Kanban view in Slack and posted end-of-day updates with blockers and next steps. We shipped the dashboard a day early, cut CRM deduping time by about 30%, and still surfaced two key usage insights for product within the week.
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