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Five Key Elements For A Big Analytics Driven Business Impact

Occam's Razor

What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice? What one critical metric will help you clearly measure performance for each strategy above? How will you know if the performance was a success or failure, what's the target for each critical metric? You plus Finance plus CMO.].

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The Future of America’s Innovation Economy- Progress and Challenges at the USPTO

David Teten

Dickinson: I don’t have a senator; I live in DC. Kappos: We added 5 new metrics with guide on how to use them on the site. We’ve revectored to an agile development methodology. Every month, 10s of millions are being diverted away from us. But you should all be lobbying your senator. ct that filings are up 7.5%

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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. In this post, Id like to talk about the perils of vanity metrics. My personal favorite vanity metrics is "hits."

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Empowering Analysis Ninjas? 12 Signs To Identify A Data Driven Culture

Occam's Razor

8: Your Team's DC, DR, DA effort allocation is 15%-20%-65%. #7: They are generic mash-ups that tailor to almost no one's needs, and more often than not contain awful things like nine not-really-thought out metrics for one dimension in a report. Pick hard metrics to designate as your key performance indicators.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.