Originally written by Nigel Higgs on LinkedIn Pulse.

We who have been in the data sphere a while and in and around Data Governance will have seen the pitch-decks, watched the webinars, read the blogs and attended the conferences.  Some of us will have…

A recent Wikibon report found that enterprises are struggling to derive maximum value from Big Data. While they expect a return of around $3.50 on the dollar, their return to-date is just $0.55. So what stops the business from deriving value from analytics? Based on my extensive…

The "Big Data" marketing hype obscures the fact that more actionable, valuable insights are likely to be found in the right smaller "Smart Data" sets in contrast to large data sets.



While the term "Big Data" is properly defined as data sets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time - the…

This article outlines the differences between Agile and Traditional Project Management. APM vs TPM, where APM stands for Agile Project Management and TPM stands for Traditional Project Management. APM focuses on customer interaction and satisfaction, where as TPM focuses on artifacts and Plans and adherence to the Plan. APM responds to and change by using adaptive actions, where as TPM adheres to Change Management and tight control by using corrective actions. 

APM deals with…