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Data Myths
In a post for The Guardian's Datablog, Jonathan Grey explores the rise of data journalism. Data journalism is "a journalistic process based on analyzing and filtering large data sets for the purpose of...
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What's the Story in Your Data?
In his book, The Functional Art, Alberto Cairo sets out to explain what data visualizations are, why it is significant to pair data and design, and how to assess whether a data visualization is "good"...
View ArticleNew Article: Data-Driven Estimation, Management Lead to High Quality
Software projects devote enormous amounts of time and money to quality assurance. It's a difficult task, considering most QA work is remedial in nature - it can correct problems that arise long before...
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Database Validation Best Practices
Database validation is an important step in ensuring that you have quality data in your historical database. I've talked before about the importance of collecting project data and what you can do with...
View ArticleHow to Use Big Data to Improve Your Software Projects
In the recent Washington Post article How the Obama Campaign Won the Race for Voter Data, Joel Kowsky writes about how the 2012 Obama campaign used analytics to improve their campaign strategy, and to...
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Data-Less Decision Making
I rather enjoyed the Google Analytics April Fools prank earlier this month, Welcome to Data-Less Decision Making on Analytics Academy. Though satirical, this video brings to light an important reason...
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A Case of Software Data Collection
Television has done a fine job of glamorizing the job of an investigator. Whether you fancy the classic Sherlock Holmes, the affable Colombo, or even perhaps enjoy the suspense associated with...
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Probability, Baseball, and Project Estimation
How is baseball analysis like software project management? One way is the ability to continually update estimates and forecasts, as the situation and our knowledge change. As Larry Putnam Jr recently...
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Cut the 'Madness' Out of Software Estimation
The time has come, once again for QSM’s annual March Madness tournament. As we enter our 6th year of friendly office competition, I looked back at some of my previous strategies to help me figure out...
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Why Should I Care about the Actual Data? The Project Is Complete.
"The game ain't over 'til it's over." - Yogi BerraBaseball season is here and with apologies to the late Mr. Yogi Berra, “it’s like déjà vu all over again.”Why would a project team or program...
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Historical Data Isn’t Playing “Hard to Get”
“No, we don’t have any historical project data collected” is the statement I hear with some frequency when speaking to organizations about their IT project estimating processes. Ideally we use client...
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New Article: Leveraging the Power of Historical Data Through the Use of Trend...
Developing software within the DoD presents a unique set of challenges, including but not limited to budget cuts, Congressionally mandated changes, changing software requirements, and so on. It should...
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How Can You Leverage Big Data to Reduce Your IT Costs?
Today more than ever we have access to large amounts of information. You've probably heard the term "big data," which in essence is having access to large amounts of data and examining the trends in...
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Database Validation Best Practices
Database validation is an important step in ensuring that you have quality data in your historical database. I've talked before about the importance of collecting project data and what you can do with...
View ArticleHow to Use Big Data to Improve Your Software Projects
In the recent Washington Post article How the Obama Campaign Won the Race for Voter Data, Joel Kowsky writes about how the 2012 Obama campaign used analytics to improve their campaign strategy, and to...
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Data-Less Decision Making
I rather enjoyed the Google Analytics April Fools prank earlier this month, Welcome to Data-Less Decision Making on Analytics Academy. Though satirical, this video brings to light an important reason...
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A Case of Software Data Collection
Television has done a fine job of glamorizing the job of an investigator. Whether you fancy the classic Sherlock Holmes, the affable Colombo, or even perhaps enjoy the suspense associated with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Probability, Baseball, and Project Estimation
How is baseball analysis like software project management? One way is the ability to continually update estimates and forecasts, as the situation and our knowledge change. As Larry Putnam Jr recently...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cut the 'Madness' Out of Software Estimation
The time has come, once again for QSM’s annual March Madness tournament. As we enter our 6th year of friendly office competition, I looked back at some of my previous strategies to help me figure out...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Should I Care about the Actual Data? The Project Is Complete.
"The game ain't over 'til it's over." - Yogi BerraBaseball season is here and with apologies to the late Mr. Yogi Berra, “it’s like déjà vu all over again.”Why would a project team or program...
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