Observed in their natural habitat: the 30-minute calendar block that somehow lasts an hour. The modern meeting is an ecosystem. Dozens of species coexist in it, each adapted to survive on a diet of agenda items and mild social pressure. These species (plural) are...
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...