Leanpub Header

Skip to main content
Go to Leanpub.comLeanpub

Unmanage

The Machine Learning Manifesto of Cultural Primitives for Engineering Teams in Traditional Organizations

Jean Voigt
Free With Membership

With Membership

Free!

$9.99

You pay

$9.99

Author earns

$7.99
$

...Or Buy With Credits!

You can get credits with a paid monthly or annual Reader Membership, or you can buy them here.
PDF
EPUB
About

About

About the Book

In this experience-based account, Jean Voigt describes cultural, organizational and critical technical aspects for consideration when building artificial intelligence and machine learning teams. Covering a broad area from, legal, technical data and model management to leadership and people management aspects the book provokes to take a step back and reflect. Each chapter includes a comprehensive reading list to further dive into specific topics in more detail. The extend of recent research material combined with Jean's leadership experience enables executives and engineers to improve their AI and ML initiatives and increase the odds of successful completion.

Share this book

Feedback

Email the Author

Author

About the Author

Jean Voigt

Jean has been building and leading data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning teams for more than ten years. As a CFA Charterholder with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Zurich, he has built expertise in driving the organizational design and strategic product management aspect of machine intelligence. The Machine Learning Manifesto principles summarize vital aspects Jean has observed in the field and released to the community of machine learning practitioners for endorsement and adaptation.


Jean lives in Zurich, is an avid mountaineer, and regularly spends a few hours with recreational coding.


Blog: https://jeanvoigt.medium.com

Machine Learning Manifesto: https://machinelearningmanifesto.com

Contents

Table of Contents

1Introduction

2The Machine Learning Manifesto

3Data Myopia And Other Distractions

  1. 3.1The individual bias
  2. 3.2The corporate stage 
  3. 3.3Enter the machine 
  4. 3.4To the rescue
  5. 3.5Further reading

4Organizational & Structural Aspects For AI Teams

  1. 4.1United federation of analytics
  2. 4.2Role inflation
  3. 4.3Role layering
  4. 4.4Serving leaders wanted
  5. 4.5Tolerance considered harmful
  6. 4.6Perspective of future work
  7. 4.7The bottom line
  8. 4.8Further reading

5Addressing Four Key Cross-Functional Conflicts in AI/ML Initiatives

  1. 5.1Data management and quality
  2. 5.2What is CX-98/001?
  3. 5.3The 80% of work
  4. 5.4The friendly lawyer from the next floor
  5. 5.5Conclusion
  6. 5.6Further reading

6Six Strategic Process Considerations Beyond MLOps

  1. 6.1Do responsibilities, knowledge & procedures conflict with agile principles?
  2. 6.2Don’t do any harm
  3. 6.3Staying out of court
  4. 6.4Exercise routine
  5. 6.5Cell replication
  6. 6.6Looking beyond
  7. 6.7Summary
  8. 6.8Further reading

7Six Reasons to Spend More Time Thinking About Labels

  1. 7.1Engineered and collected labels
  2. 7.2Noisy and clean labels
  3. 7.3Many and few labels
  4. 7.4Initial and updated labels
  5. 7.5Definitive and approximate labels
  6. 7.6Consistent and inconsistent labels
  7. 7.7Now what?
  8. 7.8Further reading

8Seven Critical Machine Intelligence Exams & The Hidden Link of MLOps with Product Management

  1. 8.1Science is not engineering… that is OK!
  2. 8.2Test, test, test…. does it work yet?
  3. 8.3Functional testing
  4. 8.4Performance testing
  5. 8.5Label quality sensitivity testing
  6. 8.6Ethical and regulatory testing
  7. 8.7Consistency testing
  8. 8.8Hyperparameter corner cases
  9. 8.9Drift tests
  10. 8.10Summary
  11. 8.11Further reading

9Five Ideas to Maintain Senior Executive Involvement for Machine Learning

  1. 9.1Break the ice
  2. 9.2Remove the fear factor
  3. 9.3Make it fun
  4. 9.4Be a champion
  5. 9.5Summary
  6. 9.6Further reading

10The Machine Learning Product Strategy Journey

  1. 10.1Dare to do more!
  2. 10.2Danger: Construction ahead!
  3. 10.3Plot the course
  4. 10.4It’s a bus
  5. 10.5Take your bearing
  6. 10.6Summary
  7. 10.7Further reading

The Leanpub 60 Day 100% Happiness Guarantee

Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.

Now, this is technically risky for us, since you'll have the book or course files either way. But we're so confident in our products and services, and in our authors and readers, that we're happy to offer a full money back guarantee for everything we sell.

You can only find out how good something is by trying it, and because of our 100% money back guarantee there's literally no risk to do so!

So, there's no reason not to click the Add to Cart button, is there?

See full terms...

Earn $8 on a $10 Purchase, and $16 on a $20 Purchase

We pay 80% royalties on purchases of $7.99 or more, and 80% royalties minus a 50 cent flat fee on purchases between $0.99 and $7.98. You earn $8 on a $10 sale, and $16 on a $20 sale. So, if we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book for $20, you'll earn $80,000.

(Yes, some authors have already earned much more than that on Leanpub.)

In fact, authors have earned over $14 million writing, publishing and selling on Leanpub.

Learn more about writing on Leanpub

Free Updates. DRM Free.

If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book! Many authors use Leanpub to publish their books in-progress, while they are writing them. All readers get free updates, regardless of when they bought the book or how much they paid (including free).

Most Leanpub books are available in PDF (for computers) and EPUB (for phones, tablets and Kindle). The formats that a book includes are shown at the top right corner of this page.

Finally, Leanpub books don't have any DRM copy-protection nonsense, so you can easily read them on any supported device.

Learn more about Leanpub's ebook formats and where to read them

Write and Publish on Leanpub

You can use Leanpub to easily write, publish and sell in-progress and completed ebooks and online courses!

Leanpub is a powerful platform for serious authors, combining a simple, elegant writing and publishing workflow with a store focused on selling in-progress ebooks.

Leanpub is a magical typewriter for authors: just write in plain text, and to publish your ebook, just click a button. (Or, if you are producing your ebook your own way, you can even upload your own PDF and/or EPUB files and then publish with one click!) It really is that easy.

Learn more about writing on Leanpub