A Day In The Life Of A Business Intelligence And Analytics Manager At Warner Bros Discovery
Gideon's day-to-day as a Manager, Business Intelligence & Analytics involves navigating project management systems like Jira, utilizing "sprints and scrums," and "figuring out...what are our goals? What are we trying to build?" A significant portion of the work entails either directly addressing data queries or assigning tasks to engineers to enhance data analysis capabilities.
Project Management, Data Analysis, Software Engineering, Problem-Solving, Leadership
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Gideon Rosenthal
Manager, Business Intelligence & Analytics
Warner Bros. Discover
Duke, 2013
UCLA Anderson
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Video Highlights
1. A typical day involves using project management tools like Jira and working in sprints or kanban systems.
2. A significant portion of the work focuses on identifying projects, setting goals, and using software to track progress and deliver value to stakeholders.
3. The role includes hands-on tasks like querying databases and analytics platforms, as well as assigning tasks to engineers to improve data analysis capabilities.
Transcript
What does a day in the life of an analytics engineering manager look like?
I think it changes from company to company. I imagine in many industries, especially those that use project management software like Jira, there are common concepts.
These include Sprints and scrums. If those terms mean nothing to you, I definitely recommend Googling them. They are useful terms and ways of doing project management.
At the end of the day, it's about figuring out what we're working on, what our goals are, and what we're trying to build. Project management software helps ensure we're pointed in the right direction and driving value for stakeholders.
My day often involves working on tickets myself, which might mean going into the database or our analytics platform to figure things out or answer questions. Or, I'm writing tickets for engineers, asking them to change specific things so we can look at data differently.
So, the day-to-day is a lot of project roadmapping. This might change if you have an individual project manager on your team. However, if you're an analytics engineering manager, a product manager, or a project manager, you're likely working a lot within a scrum or Kanban environment.
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