Business Intelligence & Analytics · Project Management

Survey Results: BI, BigData, & Analytic Project Success

The aim of the research was to understand the success criteria for decision support projects and what influences the performance of those projects. “Decision support projects are implementation projects that deliver data, analytical models, analytical competence, or all three, for unstructured decision-making and problem-solving. They include subspecialties such as big data, advanced analytics, business intelligence,… Continue reading Survey Results: BI, BigData, & Analytic Project Success

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Can we Motivate you to Share your Knowledge?

Knowledge Management (KM) implies creating, using, sharing and managing the knowledge of people from an organization. Some of the benefits of supporting the processes of KM are clear and well-known. The PMBOK(R) Guide 6th edition adds the chapter 4.4.2.  ‘Manage Project Knowledge: Tools and Techniques’ in recognition of KM importance. KM is about people, processes… Continue reading Can we Motivate you to Share your Knowledge?

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About Team Members Types and Personalities in Agile Projects

We have written about how the agile coach deals with the different types of team members observing and determining the right level of support and guidance to give. Based on a few past projects, we could identify several team member personalities and behaviors that have a positive and negative impact on the execution of the… Continue reading About Team Members Types and Personalities in Agile Projects

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My Visualization Tips – Keys to Creative Visualization in all Project Management Phases

In the last months, we have been writing about Visualization in projects on our blog. We have shared a few tips and our experience in making projects v i s u a l. We covered not only project data in the form of charts and diagrams, but also project relevant information such as requirements, expectations,… Continue reading My Visualization Tips – Keys to Creative Visualization in all Project Management Phases

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Free ‘Going Agile’ ePub for PM, BigData, Analytic or BI Survey Input by Oct., 1st

I am doing some research to investigate success from a project perspective of the different types of decision support projects and their contribution to organizational performance. Join the effort and get a free ‘Going Agile Project Management Practices Second Edition’ ePub or Kindle book (worth 32 USD on amazon). Project managers, agile coaches, project team… Continue reading Free ‘Going Agile’ ePub for PM, BigData, Analytic or BI Survey Input by Oct., 1st

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Building a Team with Collaborative Events

The agile coach has the responsibility to build the team into a self-organizing unit that can make its own decisions and resolve its own conflicts as well as collaborate as a team to deliver the product. Building a team is much more than building a working group. ‘Going Agile – Project Management Practices’ says the… Continue reading Building a Team with Collaborative Events

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Visualization in Projects – User Roles and Personas

Agile methodologies suggest the use of user stories that are specific to a role. Personas are one way of representing these roles. User Story As Gloria J. Miller writes in ‘Going Agile – Project Management Practices’ the format for user’s story should include a title and the information on the role of the user, the… Continue reading Visualization in Projects – User Roles and Personas

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Project Visualization: Sankey Diagram of Project Effort – by Gloria J. Miller

Sankey diagram is a data visualization tool that can be used to visualize multidimensional data in different ways. Originally, they were used to visual the flow of resources such as energy or material. The important features of Sankey diagrams is that they represent the physical flow from a source to a target related of a… Continue reading Project Visualization: Sankey Diagram of Project Effort – by Gloria J. Miller