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Managing Data-Intensive Programs and Projects: Selected Articles

Managing Data-Intensive Programs and Projects: Selected Articles

Dennis D. McDonald
Accountability, Analytics, Assessment, Cloud Computing, DATA Act, Data.gov, Governance, Industry Analysis, Information Technology, Innovation, Management, Metrics, NOAA, Open Data, PMO, Performance, Project Management, Strategy, eGovernment, Data Program Management, Digital Transformation

I’ve created this special compendium of posts that are relevant to planning and managing data related programs and projects. There are four groups:

Risk, Uncertainty, and Managing Big Data Projects

Risk, Uncertainty, and Managing Big Data Projects

Dennis D. McDonald
Analytics, BDPM, Big Data, Collaboration, Governance, Knowledge Transfer, Management, Project Management, Research, Risk Management, Data Program Management, Data Governance
Anyone who practices project management for a living will recognize this list. It’s certainly not unique to big data analytics project. It is however reasonable to ask whether “big data” projects are unique in some way that exacerbates the probability of failure.
Perspectives on the NSA and PRISM: What Dyson Missed

Perspectives on the NSA and PRISM: What Dyson Missed

Dennis D. McDonald
Accountability, Analytics, Data, Data Access, Democracy, Media, Memory, NSA, PRISM, Privacy, Semantic Web, Snowden, Transparency, Cold War
In NSA: The Decision Problem George Dyson lays out a credible historical view on why he thinks what Snowden revealed about the NSA and PRISM was inevitable. While it’s certainly a pleasure to read a discussion of these issues that is so thoughtful, I think he misses one major theme that helps us understand our current predicament over what to do about Snowden.