Posts tagged Strategy
Trifacta Flow Examples: A Little Help to Start Wrangling

Those who have used the Trifacta platform wouldn’t just tell you that it works—they’d also tell you that we’ve actually made data preparation fun. What was once considered a tedious, often dreaded activity has now become quite addictive with the Trifacta platform. Still, getting started with a new technology isn’t easy. Here are a few tips to get you feeling confident and comfortable with the Trifacta data preparation platform.

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Dispatches from the Seventh Circle of Scrum: Episode Ⅱ

If you have an active Scrum practice, make a plan to implement one of these tips. Change doesn’t have to be daunting, nor does it have to be forced in all at once. It never hurts to be agile about Agile. In their book Fixing Your Scrum, Ripley and Miller offer an approach to effectively identifying and applying changes within an organization, by asking the simple question: “What’s within my control that I can change to get our organization 15% closer to where it needs to be?”

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Dispatches from the Seventh Circle of Scrum: Episode Ⅰ

Few ideologies or concepts have been as transformative in the realm of project delivery over the past couple of decades as Scrum. Now celebrating 25 years in existence and deeply embedded at tech startups and tech giants alike, Scrum has practically become a household name ( – though not quite, as evidenced by recurring questions from my wife: “What exactly are you a master of?” and “What’s a… scrum?”).

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7 Things I’ve Learned Working in Quarantine

This article examines one person’s experiences and lessons learned during the last few months of working from home during quarantine. In it, we will look at practical, social, and psychological advice for managing yourself and your time at home. By reading this article, we hope that you will come away feeling better prepared to not only survive but thrive while working from home.

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BI Tomorrowland

…As I stood there, rubbing my bruised noggin and craving Dutch apple pie, I reflected on the changes currently underway in the world of BI. The technology oracles have been saying it for some time now, but never had it been more apparent to me than at IBM Data & AI Forum last October that social forces, business practices, and new technologies are changing the way we think about enterprise data.

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Why the Cloud Was Made for Data & Analytics

The benefits of cloud computing are widely accepted these days, but we’re still in the early stages of organizations actually moving systems to the cloud. While all sorts of workloads can benefit from cloud computing, your data and analytics systems are a great place to start—or to look at next if you’re already on the cloud journey.

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5 Ways Your AI Projects Fail, Part 5

The recurring perception that artificial intelligence, AI, is somehow magical and can create something from nothing leads many projects astray. That’s part of the reason that the 2019 Price Waterhouse CEO Survey shows fewer than half of US companies are embarking on strategic AI initiatives – the risk of failure is substantial. In this series, we’re examining the most common ways AI projects will fail for companies at the beginning of your AI journey. Be on the lookout for these failures – and ways to remediate or prevent them – in your own AI initiatives.

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5 Ways Your AI Projects Fail, Part 4

The recurring perception that artificial intelligence, AI, is somehow magical and can create something from nothing leads many projects astray. That’s part of the reason that the 2019 Price Waterhouse CEO Survey shows fewer than half of US companies are embarking on strategic AI initiatives – the risk of failure is substantial. In this series, we’re examining the most common ways AI projects will fail for companies at the beginning of your AI journey. Be on the lookout for these failures – and ways to remediate or prevent them – in your own AI initiatives.

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5 Ways Your AI Projects Fail, Part 2

The recurring perception that artificial intelligence, AI, is somehow magical and can create something from nothing leads many projects astray. That’s part of the reason that the 2019 Price Waterhouse CEO Survey shows fewer than half of US companies are embarking on strategic AI initiatives – the risk of failure is substantial. In this series, we’re examining the most common ways AI projects will fail for companies in the beginning of your AI journey. Be on the lookout for these failures – and ways to remediate or prevent them – in your own AI initiatives.

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5 Ways Your AI Projects Fail, Part 1

The recurring perception that artificial intelligence, AI, is somehow magical and can create something from nothing leads many projects astray. That’s part of the reason that the 2019 Price Waterhouse CEO Survey shows fewer than half of US companies are embarking on strategic AI initiatives – the risk of failure is substantial. In this series, we’re examining the most common ways AI projects will fail for companies in the beginning of your AI journey. Be on the lookout for these failures – and ways to remediate or prevent them – in your own AI initiatives.

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