Author: Caitlin Moorman

Caitlin Moorman

Caitlin is Head of Analytics at Trove Recommerce, where she helps brands create circular retail models at scale – buying back and reselling their products to extend their useful life. She previously led data teams in crowdfunding and self-publishing. When she’s not optimizing single-item pricing or operations, she’s usually drinking a cup of tea and watching her chickens peck around the back yard.

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Linear and Circular Projects in Data, Part 1

In Management, Roles & ResponsibilitiesTags Agile, Communication, Management, Project Management, StakeholdersAugust 10, 2020

Caitlin Moorman

The nuances of data projects add an extra layer of challenge to project planning and agile project management approaches. Even the most efficient data team must manage the inherent moving-target nature of data work; the unique communication needs that go alongside that; and the tradeoffs between rigor, curiosity, and urgency.

Nuances of Data Projects

Discovery, exploratory, or otherwise open-ended projects—projects where a data team is uniquely suited to make an impact—don’t always have a clear cut destination. The goal

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Proficiency v. Creativity

In ManagementTags Creativity, Management, Orgs, TeamJune 3, 2020

Caitlin Moorman

Your data team has to produce solid data. The pipelines have to run, the logic in your transformations has to be sound, and the report has to show accurate revenue.

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How to Use Your Career Ladder

In Roles & ResponsibilitiesTags Analytics, Management, Org, TeamsJanuary 20, 2020

Caitlin Moorman

Providing clarity and structure around expectations empowers your team members to decide what skills and competencies to focus on improving. However, writing the career ladder is only the beginning of

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How to Create a Career Ladder

In Roles & ResponsibilitiesTags Analytics, Management, Org, TeamsJanuary 13, 2020

Caitlin Moorman

After last week, I hope you’re on board that a career ladder is important, so let’s jump right into creating one that works for your team. This post will walk

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Why You Need A Career Ladder

In Roles & ResponsibilitiesTags Analytics, Management, Org, TeamJanuary 6, 2020

Caitlin Moorman

Happy New Year! In the blank slate of January, many of us are thinking about what’s next. Maybe you need a road map for the projects your team will tackle this

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Glue Work

In CultureTags Analytics, Management, Org, TeamOctober 15, 2019

Caitlin Moorman

If you’re lucky, you know what it will take to get your next promotion. Maybe you need to work on communicating your analyses at the C-level instead of primarily to

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