Workplace Metrics and Data as We Return to Work

by Larry Lander | May 2nd, 2022

Data is essential — or so we’ve been told. There are a host of voices promoting the value of Big Data, and, indeed, we have increasingly sophisticated ways to gather it and harness the increasing volume, velocity, and variability of such inputs. In our business, it’s about how many, how few; how much, how little; how big, how small. But a successful project — one that truly meets the client’s objectives — is so much more than a math problem. Let’s agree: The interpretation of the data is always more important than the numbers themselves. A Program, Not a Space List A program is a critical step before a project can be designed, engineered, and built. Willie Peña’s seminal work Problem Seeking, where he and his team at CRS helped define a programming methodology, is still as fresh and insightful as it was almost 50 years ago. It rests on …