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I’ve Become the PM I Used to Hateoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2025
The Fallacy of Data-Driven Strategyoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2025
Stand Out in Today’s Data Job Market: Key Tips and Strategiesoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2025

2024

The Five Laws of Data Enablement: How the father of library science would make his data team indispensableoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2024

2023

Tell me What you Want, What you Really, Really Want: How to Identify the Real Business Question.original ↗
28 Aug 2023
Project Execution Skills Build Your Reputation for Delivering Valueoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2023
Leverage Your Technical Skills to Work Smarter, Not Harderoriginal ↗
9 May 2023
Announcing the 2023-2024 Locally Optimistic Fellowsoriginal ↗
8 May 2023
Hello Product Data Team, Goodbye Ad-Hoc Workoriginal ↗
2 May 2023
Learning: The Meta-Skill for Accelerating Impactoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2023
Solidify Your Soft Skillsoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2023
Reducing the Lottery Factor, for Data Teamsoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2023
The Art of Onboardingoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2023

2022

The Data Business Partnershiporiginal ↗
15 Aug 2022
Data Leadership After a Layofforiginal ↗
7 Jul 2022
People-first Data stacksoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2022
Building more effective data teams using the JTBD frameworkoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2022

2021

The Next Big Challenge for Data is Organizationaloriginal ↗
26 Oct 2021
The Data Product Manageroriginal ↗
12 Sept 2021
Share Your Data Insights to Engage Your Colleaguesoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2021
User Research for Your Data Team, Part 2original ↗
26 May 2021
User Research for Your Data Team, Part 1original ↗
4 May 2021
Run Your Data Team Like A Product Teamoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2021
Forecasts and targets (Part 4)original ↗
18 Mar 2021
Facilitating the meeting (Part 3)original ↗
21 Jan 2021
Data Team Surveys – Learn What Your Stakeholders REALLY Wantoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2021
Developing KPIs for the MBR (Part 2)original ↗
4 Jan 2021

2020

Starting a Business Review Programoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2020
Lean Data Scienceoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2020
Linear and Circular Projects in Data, Part 2original ↗
17 Aug 2020
Linear and Circular Projects in Data, Part 1original ↗
10 Aug 2020
Git for Data: Not a Silver Bulletoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2020
Proficiency v. Creativityoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2020
Building an Analytics Stack in 2020original ↗
22 Apr 2020
The Many Hats of a Data Analystoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2020
How to Use Your Career Ladderoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2020
How to Create a Career Ladderoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2020
Why You Need A Career Ladderoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2020

2019

The Data Science Lab Bookoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2019
Glue Workoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2019
You Probably Don’t Need a Data Dictionaryoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2019
KPI Principlesoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2019
Happy Birthday Locally Optimisticoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2019
A Culture of Partnershiporiginal ↗
21 Mar 2019
The Analytics Engineeroriginal ↗
27 Jan 2019
Creating a Data Road Maporiginal ↗
6 Jan 2019

2018

Against A/B Testsoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2018
Building a Data Practice from Scratchoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2018
Learn the Overlaps: Advice for the Aspiring Data Scientistoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2018
What is Production?original ↗
14 Oct 2018
Code as Configurationoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2018
A chat about A/B testingoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2018
Wrong Data Can Still Be Rightoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2018
Adding Context to Your Analysis with Annotationsoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2018
Building Your Analytics Brain Trustoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2018
The Blacker the Boxoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2018