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Test Concerns

When talking about testing in a data project we have to first identify that the testing we need to do is similar but different to the testing we do in application development project. One of the useful way to identify these differences is to understand a number of the...

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Business Rule Templates

When do BI projects that require new data we know anecdotally that once we have acquired the required data from the System of Records the majority of our time and risk is applying code that transforms and/or augments data. In my terminology I call this "doing bad...

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Standups should be open not closed

As a Stakeholder or Product Owner I want I want to understand who can attend a standup So that I can ensure we are following an Agile approach Standups One of the many key things in deliverying in an AgileBI way is the use of daily standups to...

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The Danger of Pipelining and Time Slicing

As a BI Manager I want to understand the impact of pipelining the Agile teams workflow So that I know if it is an approach I wish to use Managing to complete an AgileBI build in three elapsed weeks is very very difficult. And by a build I mean from...

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Benevolent Dictator

As a AgileBI Guru I want to understand what a Benevolent Dictator is So that I know when one is needed   The team have discussed it "to death" and are now constantly repeating the same arguements "around and around" More informaiton is neded to...

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Remote Scrum Masters

Remote Scrum Masters

As a Stakeholder or Product Owner
I want some examples of things that can fail in AgileBI
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The art of ongoing funding

[[how to keep finding going in an project org]] [[not the agile teams problem]] [[projetc pipeline option, and rolling one project ahead]] [[fund the team and business prioritisation option]] [[business unit funds the work outside of a project strucuture, direct...

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Removing Latency

One of the focuses of AgileBI should be removing latency from the entire delivery process. We do this by identifying patterns we can use to reduce the effort and risk in doing repeatable tasks.  And then when we have these patterns identified, we should automate...

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It’s about content not reports or dashboards

We have seen a lot of new business intelligence vendors and tools enter the market over the last couple of years. [[introduction of apps concept]] [[encapsulation of data and layouts in one thing]] [[likened t the old dashboards, but can also finally deliver self...

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The Challenges of Continous Integration

In the world of Agile Application development and particularly cloud development of these applications as Software as a Service offerings, Continious Integration is a core component used to speed up and automate the development and deployment of these solutions. When...

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Champion vs Challenger

One of the more challenging areas in Business Intellegence and Data Warehousing is understanding how to apply tests to data that has been transformed, to prove we have delivered a correct result. It can be as simple as proving that we are presenting the right revenue,...

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Doing Agile vs Being Agile

There is a concept of being "ad-how" vs "doing agile" vs "being agile". [[adhoc]] [[table of points]] [[adhoc, team meeting, no stand ups, no documentation, milestone projetc plan, no done done]] [[doing, daily stand ups, no demo day, maybe planning, no retrospective,...

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Product Owner vs Feature Owner

Introduction to the feature owner role The role of Product Owner is a hard role in a AgileBI project.  The product owner has to provide a number of capabilities:  [[Engage with the stakeholders to provide ]]  [[SME]]  [[data]]  [[business...

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Coaching your first agile team

Don't tell then what to do. Let them create acceptance criteria that means a card won't move for a week, cause they will Raise issues as observations in retrospective and provide suggestions if they have none Provide observations when the sprint backlog is still full...

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