Team Briefing

Wed, Mar 18, 9:18 PM · 1880 events analyzed across 4 teams

Executive Summary

•4 teams analyzed across 1,880 communication events over the past week.
•Engineering has an information bottleneck — one member handles 73% of cross-team communication.
•Data Science is becoming increasingly siloed, with cross-team communication dropping from 19% to 8%.
•Product team is managing high external demand (14.2 meeting hours/person/week) from multiple teams.
•Design team is collaborating effectively with balanced participation and no concerning patterns.

Cross-Team Insights

concern Growing Communication Gap Between Data Science and Engineering High confidence

These two teams used to share significant topic overlap and had regular cross-team exchanges. Over the past 6 weeks, their communication has diverged. Data Science is becoming increasingly specialized while Engineering's requests go through Product as an intermediary.

Benchmark: Connected teams maintain at least 2-3 direct communication channels. Current: most exchanges are routed through Product.

Recommendation: Create a shared Slack channel for 'data-eng-integration' and schedule a monthly architecture alignment. The goal isn't more meetings — it's more direct communication.

When previously connected teams drift apart, it often signals a misalignment between what's being built and how it integrates. MIT/Cross 2021 found this pattern in 34% of organizations with separate data teams.

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