Project Management – Mental Models 4 Life

Agile Data Science: Don’t Let Your Model Die in a Powerpoint Presentation

September 23, 2017

Most data science projects are doomed to failure before they even start. There are a couple of reasons. The aspiring data scientist and management may be drawn to a sexy problem rather than an important problem. The full range of data required to do a complete analysis may be inaccessible or even non-existent. And even … More Agile Data Science: Don’t Let Your Model Die in a Powerpoint Presentation

Agile Data Science: Start with An Action

May 28, 2016

The life of a sea squirt has an important lesson for data science. For those who haven’t heard, sea squirts come to life as larvae that swim freely around. In that state, however, they are not capable of feeding so they will soon settle to the bottom of the ocean and cement themselves headfirst to … More Agile Data Science: Start with An Action

Agile Data Science – A Prerequisite

September 18, 2015

A colleague recently came back from his MBA class with a useful insight: Agile practices work like a (financial) leverage in project management, magnifying good things on the way up and bad things on the way down. There are already many good books and articles on the benefits of agile software engineering and agile data science so … More Agile Data Science – A Prerequisite