Ensuring Effective Collaboration Between Data Scientists and Software Engineers

How do you ensure a smooth hand-off between data science and engineering on ML projects? How do you ensure a smooth hand-off between data science and engineering on ML projects? Excellent question, and one that I've been thinking a lot. At Quora, my data science team works closely with machine learning engineers. Joe Isaacson already provided a great answer to this question, and I will add some of my learnings.