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5 Factors In Agile BI

5 Factors In Agile BI

As a Stakeholder or Product Owner
I want to understand 5 things that will promote an AgileBI approach
So that I can include them in how we do things

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The Big Guess Up Front (BGUF)

The Big Guess Up Front (BGUF)

As a Stakeholder or Product Owner
I want to understand where the traditional planning documents fit in the AgilebI process
So that I know when I need to have them created

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No Meetings

No Meetings

As a BI Manager or Scrum Master
I want to understand how to deal with ‘meetings’ in an AgileBI project
So that I can change the team’s negative view on collaboration

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Agile Engineering

As a BI ManagerI want to understand what risk and challenges I will encounterSo that I know what I am getting myself into Reducing your delivery timeframe down to 3 weeks, means you need to find ways to automate many of the...

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Requirements

Requirements

As a Developer
I want to understand how to gather requirements
So that I can actually use them to deliver something of value

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BEAM meets Data Vault and wham bam thank you ma’am 

As a Developer I want to understand who I can leverage BEAM and Data Vault together So that I can develop faster and safer. Whether you are pipelining [[link]] your Agile delivery or you are managing to deliver a thin slice [[link]] every sprint iteration both should...

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The power of the points

As a BI Practitioner I want to understand the concepts behind Sprint Points So that I know why we use it Scrum uses a process called "Poker points" as a technique to allow the AgileBI team to estimate the amount of effort for each story that needs to be delivered. =...

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External Dependencies

[[how do we manage a third party that is outside the sprint process]] [[dependencies that they have to deliver for us to be succesfull]] {{the hardware didn't arrive on time}} [[they are running a waterfall project plan, or even worse no plan at all]] [[they have...

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Thin Slice vs Layer by Layer

[[we always want to do layer by layer makes us feel safe]] [[without showing value each sprint we introduce major risk of being canned]] [[risk of major rework]] [thin slice allows us to deliver visible value each sprint]] [[sprint 0 allows us to do the find atonal...

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It’s Agile not Adhoc

There are a number of myths abound about the Agile approach. These include that idea that having a daily 15 minute standup is being Agile, to Agile doesn't deliver documentation. When I hear these myths I typically reply with "Agile is not Adhoc". So let's list the...

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But what do I get?

As a BI Manager I want to understand what will be delivered when and for how much in an AgileBI projectSo that I know what to promise my stakeholders   [[three stories, based on cartoons] [[what ever you want ]] [[as long as required]] [[team x time =...

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Retrospective – Transferring Team Maturity

[[moved form one project to new one]] [[started at the place i left off]] [[hadnt taken new team on the journey]] [[new team also picked up some things faster and other things slower than last team]] [[art is reading people]]

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Agile Team Maturity

[[teams go at different paces]] [[have to learn as they go]] [[may have had bad experience with agile]] [[need to fail to fix]]  

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Backlog Grooming

As a BI practioner I want to understand when I can start backlog grooming So that I don't start it to early and cause un-required rework, or leave it to late and not be ready to start the sprints [[curate the known sotries]] [[2 hours session in week 2 and week 3]]...

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