"Lately I’ve been telling people that one of the big hurdles to implementing predictive analytics in higher education advancement is the “project mentality.” We too often think of each data mining initiative as a project, something with a beginning and end. We’d be far better off to think in terms of “process” undefined something iterative, always improving, and never-ending..."

https://cooldata.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/for-agile-data-mining-start-with-the-basics/