Hot Takes and Tragic Mistakes: How (not) to Integrate Data People in Your App Dev Team Workflows

Everyone wants to create new products with AI/ML inside, but you need to integrate your data scientists and data engineers into traditional development teams to do that. But what exactly do they do, and where in the process do they fit? Does their work entirely fall under software engineering, product, or something else? Are you even ready for AI/ML? Has anyone figured this out? As a data-scientist-turned-product person, I'll share my observations and opinions on how companies should (and shouldn't) use their data people. Learn from my hot takes and tragic mistakes to do it the right way the first time.