Update on Analytics: The Agile Way

On Friday, I sent my editor the 61,000-ish word manuscript for Analytics: The Agile Way.

Credit a combination of the following: lack of sleep, mad typing skillz, moderation issues, fear of turning on the news today or looking at a social-media feed with a psychopath/man-baby running the country, the fact that this isn’t my first rodeo, and the desire to use the book in class during the summer. (I’m teaching at ASU over the break.)

Beyond that, most of my favorite TV shows such as Better Call Saul premiere this month as well and my students will be taking their final exams soon. Translation: My window theory is alive and well.

Here’s some other data on the new book:

Chapters: 15
Parts: 5
Proper case studies: 5
Tables and figures: 66
Estimated total pages: 282 – 298
Pop-culture references: Tons

Books Are Puzzles to be Solved

In the decade that I spent as an enterprise-system consultant, I used to obsess over database design, reports, and data-related issues. I suppose that my OCD is also alive and well in the book sphere. I look at writing books as interesting puzzles to be solved. Finding the right words, transitions, overall flow, chapters, and case studies is certainly challenging.

And I like challenges.

Check it out on Amazon if you like. Wiley has moved up the publication date to mid-June.

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