It is natural to get excited about the prospect of building and deploying an interesting and high impact new data science process. Unfortunately, you have to also put effort into some less exciting aspects of such an endeavor. One item that is often underestimated and neglected, if not omitted, is ongoing maintenance costs for a new process. This blog discusses why we got away with ignoring process maintenance in the past but also why we can’t get away with it any longer.

One of the...