I recently gave a presentation to the Tampa Bay IIBA, Data Skills for Business Analysts. As you’ll see, the presentation is mostly me talking about visuals from my new book, Not Just Data: How to Deliver Continuous Enterprise Data. The focus of the presentation is on data analysis techniques and data analysis ways of working (WoW). The key takeaways of…
This is my review of Shane Gibson‘s book, An Agile Data Guide to Information Product Canvas, published in May 2025. In short, this book is a valuable addition to any data practitioner’s bookshelf because it provides easy-to-consume advice about a valuable data requirements technique. Interestingly, this book offers several interesting dichotomies: Due to its focus on an artifact (information product…
In the Autumn of 2024, I wrote a series of articles about the future of agile and the changes we were experiencing in the agile space. One article summarized my advice for how agilists can move forward in their careers given the ongoing downturn in agile, and one of my suggestions was that agile coaches should consider upping their game…
AI-Augmentation of Software Development: Use Cases This blog posting shares what I see as the common use cases for AI-augmentation of software development. Figure 1 overviews these use cases and Table 1 describes them. There are several key features of Figure 1: It’s a mapping, not a lifecycle. The diagram indicates the main categories of work in software development and…
A few days ago I was on a phone call with a young gentleman discussing where we felt the job market was going for project managers, and for managers in general. We spoke about how artificial intelligence (AI) was being applied to automate many aspects of the work that white-collar professionals perform. We shared our mutual belief that the ongoing…
For a long time now I’ve been telling people that large language models (LLMs) such as Google’s Gemini or OpenAI’s ChatGPT hallucinate 100% of the time. Here is my brief explanation of this claim. An LLM is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) model that is trained via a deep learning strategy. LLMs predict, guess if you will, the next…