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Project Management
10.1 Introduct ion
Previous chapters have focused primarily on technical aspects of analytics;
this chapter and the one following it will concentrate on two critical “soft
skills.”
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In this chapter, I will discuss the manner in which analytical work is
organized and how project management ca n be used to ma ke that organization
more efficient. Project management is esse ntially analytics applied to the act
of working; c ommonly used in a wide variety of fields, it improves gut-based
project organization through the use of structured techniques.
Some types of analysts, such as business analysts, have project manage -
ment well-integrated ...