Career Paths for Project Managers
You entered the Project Management profession as a project manager to help your organization “get it done”. You might have…
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What is the difference between a Project Manager and a Product Manager?
I was recently on an interview for a new assignment with my firm with a new customer, and I was…
Aspirent Sponsors Successful Cox Analytics Summit 2019
Aspirent is a proud sponsor of the Cox Analytics Summit 2019: an analytics knowledge-sharing endeavor across all the Cox companies.…
Aspirent Recognition at TAG Data Science & Analytics Innovation Awards 2019
Aspirent’s engagement with Southern Company was nominated last month as a Top 5 finalist for the Technology Association of Georgia’s…
The Five Types of People that Use Visualization
Dan Gastineau, practice leader for Visual Analytics at Aspirent, recently published “The Five Types of People that Use Visualization” in…
How to Use Storytelling Conventions to Create Better Visualizations
Dan Gastineau, practice leader for Visual Analytics at Aspirent, recently published “How to Use Storytelling Conventions to Create Better Visualizations”…
Four Ways the Data Scientist Has Evolved to the 21st Century
Understanding the importance of the human – machine integration and complementary decision-making skills from each appears to have made its…
How to Choose the Proper Analytics Tools for an Enterprise
In this article, we offer key steps to provide your organization with a framework for determining how to optimize its…
Five Steps for Choosing the Proper Analytical Tools for Your Organization
Data is quickly becoming a company’s most important asset. To monetize this asset, organizations leverage analytical tools that generate insights…
Propensity Score Application
Propensity score based methods applied to mitigate the bias in treatment effect estimation incurred by self-selection on observables, usually follow…
Machine Learning Applications for Document Classification
Machine learning is being applied to many difficult problems in the advanced analytics arena. A current application of interest is…
Data Visualization: Make Your Message Obvious
Many visualizations require extraordinary powers of deduction to understand them. Sometimes it feels like the author is intentionally trying to confuse you. However, it doesn’t take much to transform…
Commoditization of a Project Manager
Say it isn’t so! As an employee and consultant that has played in some form the role of project manager for the majority of my twenty-six-year career…
Three Ways to Generate Profit With the Data You Already Have
Build it and they will come. That is the view many organizations maintain about their data lakes and data warehouses. Companies are rapidly investing in systems and…
Self-Service Analytics Are Here, Do Business Intelligence Teams Face Extinction?
The world of analytics is changing. Self-Service Analytical tools like Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI are enabling business users to perform reporting and analytics on their own…
Marketing Mix Modeling – Avoiding common pitfalls
Peek at the ever-increasing cost of a Super Bowl television ad and you’d likely be unconvinced that many companies’ marketing budgets are shrinking. Nevertheless, it’s happening and…
Creative, Collaborative Scheduling
Have you ever had a project with several cross-functional workstreams, multiple internal and external parties, an aggressive schedule, and leads that wouldn’t commit to a deadline? Sounds…
What Crash Davis Taught Me About Business Analysis and Product Management
Business analysis is what I do, so it’s no surprise that I find inspiration for my trade in unexpected places. Most, however, would have a hard time…
Making Retrospectives Fun and Engaging
Are your retrospectives becoming stale or repetitive? Are they failing to add value? For new agile teams, does awkward reluctance impede honest input? Transforming the mundane into…
Writing Effective User Stories
User stories are the smallest units of user functionality in agile which can be delivered in one agile sprint. A user story must deliver particular value to…