A structured approach to solving data science problems!

While working on numerous data science projects, I have seen that that most data scientists adopt a haphazard approach when they work on a data science problem. While it is understandable that Data Science is both art as well as science, it is important to have some method to the madness. Most people I see just take the data and start throwing algorithms, hoping that they would achieve success through brute force. In most cases, this does not result into a favorable outcome. The business users also get frustrated and then it would appear that data science is nothing more than a fad.