Every project management tool sold in 2026 wants to talk to you about predictive analytics. Feed it your historical data, the pitch goes, and it will forecast your delivery date, flag your risks before they materialize, and tell you how your budget will land - all...
"We're a data-driven team." It's one of the most common claims in project management, and one of the least examined. Everyone means it sincerely. Almost nobody checks whether it's actually true of their own decisions - because the moment you looked for data to confirm...
Every Friday, a status report goes out. Eight charts: budget variance, schedule adherence, scope changes, risk register, resource utilization, defect counts, velocity trend, and a RAG status summary. Every number on it is accurate. Every chart is built correctly. And...
Every project generates numbers: task durations, sprint velocity, ticket cycle times, budget actuals, defect counts. Most of us look at them through a dashboard that has already boiled them down to a single figure. Descriptive statistics are the tools that do that...
A few weeks back, this blog's Data Analysis category got its first post: Exploratory Data Analysis is an Art. Its argument was simple - raw data needs exploring before you trust it. Look at the distribution, not just the mean. Check for outliers. Understand what's...
There's a boardroom debate happening at a lot of companies right now, and it's usually framed as high-stakes: are we bringing everyone back to the office, staying hybrid, or committing to remote? Leadership decks get built around it. Return-to-office mandates get...