Q&A

Before Q&A

First, you should

• Understand your stakehold's expectations

• Make sure you have a clear understading of the objective and what the stakeholders wanted

Then, you can start to identify the possible audience questions. You can:

• do a colleague test

  present to your colleague who has no knownledge about your project

• asume that your audience has zero background information of your project

• work with the team to anticipate questions and draft the answers

Finally, you should be prepared to consider any limitaions of your data by

• critically analyzing the correlations
• looking at the context
• understand the strengths and weekness of your tools

Handling objections

The objections or questions could be:

• data

  • Where you got the data?

  • What system it came from?

  • What transformations happened to it?

  • How fresh and accurate is data?

• analysis

  • Is the analysis reproducible?

  • Who did you get the feedback from?

• findings

  • Do these findings exist in previous time periods?

  • Did you control for the differences in your data?

It's important to keep the Changlogs and documents during the analysis.

To reponse these:

• communicate any assumptions

• explain why the analysis is different than expected

• acknowledge that the objections are valid and take steps to investigate further

Best practices

• Listen to the whole question

• Repeat the question if necessary

• Understand the context

• Involve the whole audience

• Keep your responses short and to the point