(Before you start reading, go download my mini-book on the Reciprocal Development Principles. I’ll wait here.) When it comes to coordination between wet lab and data teams, there’s an elephant in the room that it’s past time to address: Sometimes, bench scientists see the help offered by data scientists as threatening to take away the most fun and most glamorous part of their job.
Maybe it helps that I was a bench scientist in a past life. I tell them early and often that I don't want to be a bottleneck, so whatever solution I developed it helps me (since I'm doing the prototyping) and them. Where people fall into traps is assuming they have all the answers or they know best
Maybe it helps that I was a bench scientist in a past life. I tell them early and often that I don't want to be a bottleneck, so whatever solution I developed it helps me (since I'm doing the prototyping) and them. Where people fall into traps is assuming they have all the answers or they know best