When Doing Digital Transformation, Think Capabilities, Not Maturity
Why maturity models can be a bad idea, and why using a capability model is a better idea for digital transformation.
Why maturity models can be a bad idea, and why using a capability model is a better idea for digital transformation.
Tracking the performance of your software development team is really, really difficult. The 2018 book Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps gives us a fantastic way to measure just that. Here's how.
Why your CEO is so obsessed with cash flow metrics, and what you can do to help as an analytics person in your company.
There appears to be two philosophies today when it comes to managing costs in a modern data stack. We explore what they are.
An explanation of the SaaS Quick Ratio that focuses on the intuition behind the metric. Written with the data analyst in mind.
There's a tendency for people to conflate OLAP with OLAP cube. We take a quick look at how this happens, why it shouldn't, and why it matters if you're a data practitioner.
A definitive history of the rise of the OLAP cube, how it's affected our industry, and what comes after.
In Holistics, you are now able to create data models on top of external data sources like MongoDB and Google Sheets. Here's a video tutorial on how to do exactly that.
Data team careers are different from equivalent careers in software engineering, product management, or UI design. Here's how to evaluate prospective employers as part of your data career.