The “nuts and bolts” of a project. Areas of Responsibility There are four major areas of responsibility for a project manager: Identify requirements for project: Get project details, figure out what it will take to make the project a success. Establish objectives that can be achieved: Plan goals that the team will work toward and the way in…
The purpose and benefits of project management. As I describe in my Bio my second Bachelors degree was in Project Management. Not only did I learn and was challenged more than originally planned, I was most struck by how of my knowledge related to it was incorrect and even dangerous to apply within technical management. Thankfully, the Project…
While technical skills are crucial to deliver and product/service, leadership and project management or “soft skills” are just as important to ensure those resource are expended wisely to achieve strategic goals. My articles below provide a road map to such success. Project Management What is Project Management? The purpose and benefits of project management. Process…
Determine Outcomes with Relationship Types Understanding relationships between variables during analytical study is important as they often affect outcomes. Variables may have positive relationships whereby the outcome of one variable results in a positive outcome for the other. Also this positive relationship may be recursive in the second variable’s positive outcome results in a positive…
Understanding Variables & Unexpected Results Analyzing data invariably presents results may seem confusing, especially when analyzing independent variables (IVs, link to article). For example, let’s say you are analyzing age groups (IVs) to for the average chosen employment (Dependent Variable – DV). You might think with respect to differing groups employment groups of trade and…
Leveraging the Benefits of a Structured Approach In this article I will illustrate a structured approach to statistical analysis. Structured approaches provide the following benefits: Discreet: efforts in each step don’t overlap with other steps. Measurable: since each step’s efforts are discreet, reporting progress or forecasting completion is simple. The same benefit applies to resource…
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Calculating a New Column from Existing Columns When solving a data problem sometimes you are not provided all values and need to create new values by calculating existing values. In this example, I will demonstrate how to create a calculated field from an existing dataset showing sales by region. I’ll begin by connecting to my…
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