This site under reconstruction.
This post will be a short one since I’m working on a project for a friend. The random function in Excel is kind of a neat function. There are two: 1) rand() and randbetween(a,b). Some uses for it are: 1) Randomize your numbers in Monte Carlo simulation; 2) Randomly organize your numbers if you want to…
I was doing something new the other day and was surprised at the outcome. I ended up with a situation where no matter my starting position, I usually ended up with either you flame out before you reached 50 rounds (most likely 10 rounds) or you succeed and run on to 650 rounds – my…
Overseeing a large program that has over 100 projects? This situation is actually a great opportunity because with that many projects, there are a lot of data that you can dig into. The amount of data that these projects contain can be overwhelming but if you can reframe your thinking, they can be a potential source…
(Okay, this picture has nothing to do with today’s topic – it’s a copout picture. I’m still trying to set up this website and I am encountering a few problems due to learning to use this tool. And maybe I am being a little too ambitious on what I want to accomplish. Besides, sourcing pictures for…
[divider]I once had 150+ projects…[/divider] When I joined this team, they had a lot of project work. At the time, they were mostly in the $10K range, with very few in the $1 million range. All project reporting and analysis were done by spreadsheets. So if you had 150 projects, you had 150 spreadsheets. One…
Don’t Present a Large Block of Numbers When I first started working at a particular company ages ago, I encountered a situation where I had to step in and make a presentation to management. The girl who normally presented the review had been unexpectedly called out. Her presentation was a spreadsheet with lots of…
You must be logged in to post a comment.