Management on Kailas Venkitasubramanian

Changing CRDT operations under a Cloud

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The promise and peril of a large contract

Much of the previous challenges in managing the technical operations at the data trust stemmed from a lack of understanding of the scope and extent of effort for a given piece of work and having no barometer to measure productivity (or the lack of it). This meant that everyone knew that a given piece of work took 1 month to complete, everyone agreed that this delay was not acceptable,but no one really could pinpoint where the bottlenecks were and why they existed.

Revamping the Charlotte Regional Data Trust - The story so far

Mon, 22 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Plunging into the Data Trust black box, and Deep Cleaning the System

Sat, 20 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Diving into the world of administrative data and CRDT

Administrative data is messy is not much of an adage as much as it is a reality. When I took reins of managing the data infrastructure and analytical operations of Institute for Social Capital or ISC (now called the Charlotte Regional Data Trust) in the middle of 2021, messiness extended beyond data. The dysfunction was deep in how data was collected and organized, the way data operations and analyses were conducted, how information was collected from stakeholders, and how data was disseminated.

On the travails of time management at Work

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Time Study Goals

Find capacity for a pro-active research agenda
Identify and address bottlenecks in project management
Create better benchmarks for Project budgeting

Time Allocation

Actual Hours

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