Power BI and Forecasting
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Power BI and Forecasting

Since my last post on the coronavirus data before the Labor Day weekend (two posts ago?), I’ve watched a few videos on using Power BI to track the coronavirus. Most of them show just the usual: total number of cases, deaths and recoveries by global, country or states shown as a card, a table, line…

Planning
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Planning

A couple of posts ago, I said that I was going to do some comments on certain topics in Rework and their newest book, It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. Last time I wrote about their provocative idea that failure is not something to be celebrated…

Break the Rules
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Break the Rules

I’m not saying run through the red lights or book fictitious revenues – there are reasons for those kind of rules. But there are others that you can and probably NEED to break in order to attain productivity. Like, are you still manually inputting numbers into your spreadsheets? Why? Here is where you can do…

Automation

I have gotten lazy…

I think, cross my fingers, that the second round of budgeting is over but I learned something: I think I may have gotten lazy over the years. My boss can work long hours for days on end, which is intimidating and a bit worrisome. Do people now expect you to pull multiple days of working…