Month: February 2021

These are some of the principles I’ve drawn from more than 20 years experience in what we now call data science: using data to understand and improve human systems. They’re more guidelines than rules, particularly the ones rating one thing above another.

I have two lists: this one for project leaders and managers, and that one for project sponsors. This one is focused on issues around how you deliver a project and what sort of a project it is; the project sponsor one is more about how you frame and resource a project. Obviously, they overlap and have great synergy.

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These are some of the principles I’ve drawn from more than 20 years experience in what we now call data science: using data to understand and improve human systems. They’re more guidelines than rules, particularly the ones rating one thing above another.

I’ve split this in to two lists. This one is aimed towards project sponsors, but obviously it’d be useful for anyone who has to interact with project sponsors. I have another one for project leaders. The idea is that this one has more of the things you need to bear in mind in setting up and resourcing a project and connecting it to the rest of the organisation, and the other has more of the things you need to bear in mind in getting the project done.

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