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  • Precisely Wrong?
    Ahh the lure of decimal places. This is the fallacy of precision. Express something in a precise way – make it look very exact – and som...
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    This is a helpful framework for explicitly thinking about data quality. There have been plenty of frameworks for performance and data, see...
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    There are plenty of project management methodologies with their respective emphasis and strengths.  When we look into the heart of project...
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    April sees the change at the helm of the UK Statistics Authority.  That can be helpful stock-take  point to get a big picture sense of where...
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    Everything is a project.  With some combination of purpose, time and resources.  This applies to life in general too.  Going on holiday is a...
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