Blog: Technical and Leadership Articles

We’ve arrived at Part 4 of Building a Better Analytics organization and in this part, we’re going to cover issues around visualizations within applications such as Power BI and Tableau since those are the two most common applications. In this article, We will highlight the...

If you’ve been following along, this is Part 3 of my series on Building a Better Analytics Organization — Code Challenges.

Part 1 — Introduction, common tasks, and an introduction to challenges for an individual and for a team
Part 2 — Overview of the common areas...

Welcome back to my series on Building a Better Analytics Organization.

Part 1 — Introduction, common tasks, and an introduction to challenges for an individual and for a team
Part 2 — Overview of the common areas where problems can occur and the specific problems that...

Welcome to Part 1 of my 7-part series on Building a Better Analytics Organization. In this series we’ll be discussing how to create a connected analytics world to help you move faster, with fewer bugs, and less headaches. In this article, I’ll cover a background of the analytics...

This article is designed to provide some tips for how to use Jira when creating and updating tickets. If you haven’t already checked out my article about “What Jira is and how you should be using it”, I’d highly recommend giving it a read. There are some crucial points to...

Over the last 20 years, I’ve been consistently working in the tech space and I’ve worked as an individual contributor and a manager with 6 different companies. I started out in software quality assurance engineering, wrote various applications, and later moved into analytics...

Over the last 10 years dashboards have become a crucial asset in the analytics space. Stakeholders want dashboards built for limitless reasons, analysts and managers rely on them for daily insights, and the dashboard vendors (such Tableau and PowerBI) assert the power, ability, and potential of...

Throughout my career I’ve seen a number of different analytics teams and as you might expect, there are a handful of similarities and a handful of differences in how each team operates. But one thing that has consistently stuck out is how analysts are frequently hired, viewed, and utilized...

Recently I was mentoring an individual (early in his career) and he asked me a question: “What makes an analytics project a good project?” I thought that this was a really good question and worth talking about because the answer impacts individuals that are working on existing...

With the Super Bowl just days away and Tom Brady’s retirement announcement being made public, I felt that this would be a good time to discuss how teams and individuals are built. Leveraging of course, some stories from Tom Brady, his career, and football teams.

I have a question for you....

Have you ever worked on a project where you felt extremely proud of your contribution only to have management disregard your work? What about if you felt that you were being helpful and inclusive by copying your manager on all of your emails, only to find out that your manager finds you annoying...