Is Your Organization “Doing” Agile or “Being” Agile?
What are retailers doing to advance their data and analytics strategies? We share key takeaways from NRF 2023.
What are retailers doing to advance their data and analytics strategies? We share key takeaways from NRF 2023.
What are retailers doing to advance their data and analytics strategies? We share key takeaways from NRF 2023.
Are you one of the many project managers transitioning to a product manager role? These five guiding principles can help…
Are you one of the many project managers transitioning to a product manager role? These five guiding principles can help…
NTT DATA, a digital business and IT services leader, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aspirent.
Are you one of the many project managers transitioning to a product manager role? These five guiding principles can help…
Strategy-first approach to analytics saves manufacturer millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours. The final article in our three-part series.
We explain what a modern data and analytics strategy comprises and how cloud-native platforms like Snowflake can help you bring…
We explore the best way to determine where, when, and how Snowflake can deliver the biggest bang for your organization’s…
Help your dashboard users find the information they need quickly and efficiently by building in notifications.
We explore five of the top data science trends—from MLOps to embedded analytics to ethical data modeling practices.
Being successful with Agile requires leaders to reset expectations and build trust in their Agile teams and the processes they…
When product and project managers work together, they can support and enhance the overall delivery pipeline in significant ways.
At Aspirent’s annual Data & Analytics practice planning meeting in January, we examined key trends in the marketplace—from cloud to…
As companies continue to struggle to organize and extract value from the mountains of data they collect, cloud-based technology platforms…
Using Confluence and a Person-First Process to Manage Complex Projects Part I By practice, Agile development is held up by…
Aspirent, a portfolio company of Summit Park, is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Digital, Financial Services, and Real…
Part 5 of 5 Previously I wrote an article titled “Five Common Pitfall When Scaling Agile”. These pitfalls are: Not…
During this past year with the global pandemic, several retailers have struggled to keep up with consumer demands for their…
Part 4 of 5 Previously I wrote an article titled “Five Common Pitfall When Scaling Agile”. These pitfalls are: Not…
A phrase I hear myself uttering to colleagues on a regular basis is “guard your boundaries.” The underlying message being…
Collaborative Work Management (CWM) applications allow people to work together to achieve common goals and objectives. Gartner Research defines the…
Google Analytics offers two ways to access its data: 1) the out-of-the-box method (web interface) and 2) the “custom” method…
Why Portfolio Management The adage for a company to achieve its business goals and strategies is something like this… Evaluate…
Often in business, it’s helpful to understand how two metrics of interest relate to one another. This allows us to…
Part 3 of 5 Previously I wrote an article titled “Five Common Pitfall When Scaling Agile”. These pitfalls are: Not…
On March 1, 2021, Aspirent earned the Top Workplace award by the AJC for the second time in a row!…
Many companies use information dashboards to monitor and manage business performance. A dashboard may be narrowly focused on detailed metrics…
Mark Hodgdon, Manager in the Execution Practice for Aspirent, recently did an interview with Dave Prior of Leading Agile and…
Part 2 of 5 Previously I wrote an article titled “Five Common Pitfall When Scaling Agile”. These pitfalls are: Not…
Part 1 of 5 Previously I wrote an article titled “Five Common Pitfall When Scaling Agile”. These pitfalls are: Not…
As a project manager, it is often easy to get caught in the day to day activities of managing a…
Abstract In today’s IT ecosystem, many companies are moving to SaaS enterprise applications due to the many benefits and efficiencies…
What is Google Analytics? It is a website analytics service offered by Google that provides insights on the customer’s user…
Data Scientist. It’s currently one of the most attractive jobs in business. In fact, Forbes named it the best job…
Light My (Analytics) Fire: Five Steps to Get Started with Your First Analytics Project “Analytics” is among the most prevalent…
Reality is too real. Data is too abstract. Visualization is just right. We earthlings have it good. If earth’s orbit…
Companies have been scaling agile for over a decade with frameworks like Large Scale Scrum (LeSS-2005) and Scaled Agile Framework…
Overview There are countless recommendations intended to arm consultants with tools that will help them serve their customers more effectively.…
Experienced program managers and project managers know the importance of good planning. Yet, do they all know how to structure…
Professional athletes invest an exorbitant amount of time, money, and energy into developing their speed and agility. Professional sports organizations…
If you’re a new leader in this space and want to know how to best lead a data science team,…
Summary: Product managers are the visionaries and critical contributors to the success of their products. As industry leaders shift towards…
Every organization has a unique reason for existing, or else they don’t exist for long — they make an interesting…
On March 1, 2020, Aspirent earned the Top Workplace award by the AJC! “This is an incredible honor for our…
There have always been mundane tasks in business, that are repetitive and time consuming. How many times have you had…
As a continuation of my earlier article, What Is The Difference Between a Project Manager and a Product Manager?, this…
Dan Gastineau, practice leader for Visual Analytics at Aspirent, recently published “Less Reporting, More Visualization” in Nightingale, Medium’s online journal…
How many times have you heard or experienced that a program (or project) would have had a better result if…
You entered the Project Management profession as a project manager to help your organization “get it done”. You might have…
I was recently on an interview for a new assignment with my firm with a new customer, and I was…
Aspirent is a proud sponsor of the Cox Analytics Summit 2019: an analytics knowledge-sharing endeavor across all the Cox companies.…
Aspirent’s engagement with Southern Company was nominated last month as a Top 5 finalist for the Technology Association of Georgia’s…
Dan Gastineau, practice leader for Visual Analytics at Aspirent, recently published “The Five Types of People that Use Visualization” in…
Dan Gastineau, practice leader for Visual Analytics at Aspirent, recently published “How to Use Storytelling Conventions to Create Better Visualizations”…
Aspirent led the data migration for a major retailer’s merchandising execution workforce datastore from non-IT supported SQL server to the…
On August 20, members of the Aspirent team led a workshop for our community partner, the Atlanta Center for Self-Sufficiency (ACSS). Jesus…
On Friday, June 21, Kashif Choudry, Client Partner for Aspirent and Chair-Elect of PMI Atlanta, presented at Cox Communications’ Project…
Aspirent is honored to be recognized as one of Inc. 5000’s Fastest Growing Companies in America for the fourth consecutive year!…
In August the Aspirent team celebrated five years since the company’s founding in 2014. In that time we have grown to…
Understanding the importance of the human – machine integration and complementary decision-making skills from each appears to have made its…
In this article, we offer key steps to provide your organization with a framework for determining how to optimize its…
Data is quickly becoming a company’s most important asset. To monetize this asset, organizations leverage analytical tools that generate insights…
Propensity score based methods applied to mitigate the bias in treatment effect estimation incurred by self-selection on observables, usually follow…
Machine learning is being applied to many difficult problems in the advanced analytics arena. A current application of interest is…
Many visualizations require extraordinary powers of deduction to understand them. Sometimes it feels like the author is intentionally trying to confuse you.…
Say it isn’t so! As an employee and consultant that has played in some form the role of project manager…
Build it and they will come. That is the view many organizations maintain about their data lakes and data warehouses.…
The world of analytics is changing. Self-Service Analytical tools like Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI are enabling business users to…
Peek at the ever-increasing cost of a Super Bowl television ad and you’d likely be unconvinced that many companies’ marketing…
Have you ever had a project with several cross-functional workstreams, multiple internal and external parties, an aggressive schedule, and leads…
Business analysis is what I do, so it’s no surprise that I find inspiration for my trade in unexpected places. …
Are your retrospectives becoming stale or repetitive? Are they failing to add value? For new agile teams, does awkward reluctance…
User stories are the smallest units of user functionality in agile which can be delivered in one agile sprint. A…
Agile development techniques have been more and more adopted by IT organizations trying to seek faster time-to-market and to reduce…
Product Managers evolve along a continuum into “Evangelists” with passion, training and experience. The Framework At Aspirent we believe that…
Out of all the tools in in my Analytics toolkit, I am particularly fond of the Jupyter notebook. It is…
For those that don’t know about Simon Sanek, he’s described as “a visionary thinker with a rare intellect” Sanek teaches…
NEW YORK, August 17, 2016 Aspirent Ranks No. 15 in Atlanta and No. 307 Nationally on Inc. Magazine’s 35th Annual…
Database Marketing is the process of taking existing customer, market and competitive data to create targeted marketing messages to retain…
The myth that there is no estimation in an Agile development environment has been thoroughly debunked through various estimation strategies…
ATLANTA, GA – Jan 12th, 2016 Each year the Carter’s community is a proud supporter of the Pajama Program which…
ATLANTA, GA – Feb 19th, 2016 The aspirentCARES team is working with the great folks at the Atlanta Center for…
ATLANTA, GA – May 7th, 2016 The Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency were the recipients of this year’s prestigious Technology…
ATLANTA, GA – May 7th, 2016 The TechBridge nonprofit held their annual Digital Ball fundraiser today in Atlanta, inviting participants,…
ATLANTA, GA – OCTOBER 27, 2014 aspirent Consulting LLC announced today that it has entered into an agreement to buy…
ATLANTA, GA – SEPTEMBER 14, 2015 Aspirent was named by The Atlanta Business Chronicle a recipient of the “100 Best…
ATLANTA, GA – December 9th, 2015 Aspirent has been named One of The Nation’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work…
Challenge – This large media purchasing agency was losing sales to competitors who were able to leverage collaborative tools to…
Complication – This Large Retailer was storing growing volumes of structured data in a traditional data warehouse environment that was…
Complication – This Global Airline Service Provider’s Product Definition organization had been writing voluminous Use Cases for decades and had…
Complication – This global Airline Services provider was looking for ways to improve the competency and effectiveness of their Product…
Complication – This Financial Services client leveraged manual software quality assurance for the majority of their test execution. Testing was…
Complication – The client, a national leader in the business electronic asset protection industry, was involved in RFPs for several…
Complication – This large, world-wide hotel corporation had no master location for all spend, revenue and budget information for the…
Complication – A major, consumer packaged goods company had a global portfolio of digital marketing properties that numbered in the…
Complication – Michael Andrews Bespoke, New York City’s premier men’s custom clothier, needed to develop its online ecommerce presence. They…
Complication: A large retailer utilized many different systems and processes to manage timekeeping and attendance for associates located in 2000…
Complication – A large technology provider for the Airline Industry needed assistance re-platforming their software user interface to an end-user…
Complication – A large beverage company wanted deeper insights and a method to understand the relationships that existed between their…