Managing Machine Learning Projects

3 Pre-project: From requirements to proposal

This chapter covers:

• Creating a project hypothesis
• Generating an estimate for effort and time
• Doing the paperwork to get the project underway
• Completing your pre-sales checklist

In chapter 2, we covered the first half of the pre-project work. First, you set up the tools and infrastructure required to do the necessary work. Then, you undertook some tasks to gather the requirements for the project, emphasizing on the ML-specific issues that are the focus of the project. In particular, you looked at the data set for the project and found out how hard or easy it will be for the team to get it. You also documented the data-specific issues of security and privacy and understand what the key ethical and ...