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Initiation Phase 

[[layer architecture]] [[design standards]] [[backlog groom epics]] [[create team space]] [[pick agile boards, local or software if remorse team]] [[pick Comms tools, yammer, slack etc]] 

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Agile Myths

Agile Myths

As a BI Manager
I want to understand what the common Agile Myths are
So that I know how to identify them when they are referenced

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Information Products

Information Products

As a Developer
I want to understand how to capture content reqiurements quickly
So that I can estimate their size and obtain a priority for the order to deliver

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FAQs as documentation

Add them in the vision statement for the info product  -Who are our top 10 customers  Add them in the wire frames Add them in the business rules - how are the top 10 identified  -- rank by total revenue  Add them in the doco maps -Where can I find...

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Business Rules

As a Developer I want to understand how to document business rules So that we can increase the speed of delivery Another of the more difficult capabilities in data warehousing is the definition and...

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Data Layer Patterns

Over the last 20 years a number of patterns have emerged for dealing with the data layers in a centralised data repository. These have typically been attributed to the person who has championed this model, people such as Bill Inmon and Ralph Kimball. These patterns...

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Agile Overview

As a BI Practioner
I want to understand what Agile is all about
So that I can understand if I want to adopt it

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Backlogged

Articles that have a title and not much else.

6 + 2 = 4

We get taught during our life that 1 + 1 can equal three when we leverage the power of a team. This is often true and in AgileBI ... [[scrum teams deliver more]] [[velocity]] But [[adding people mod sprint makes every thign slower]] So at the beginning 6 + 2 will...

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Vision and Scope

  As a BI Practitioner I want to understand how to set expectations and limit the scope of a set of iterations So that I have some boundaries which means we will not have endless iterations or additions to requirements, without agreeing these changes upfront [[...

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Identifying the Stakeholder

[[why you need to do it]] [[stakeholder onion]] [[surprise stakeholders and their new requirements]] [[identifying who should be keep informed]]

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Demo Day

Demo day is where the team prove it has delivered the user stories as "done done" at the end of the sprint, typically in a one hour session. In theory the Product Owner should run through the finished deliverables to make sure they work. Demo days are always a...

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Agile Discipline – Planning

There is a myth that Agile is all about being adhoc and that there is no planning upfront involved. It's not true. In fact when undertaking a AgileBI approach the team will spend far more time in planning sessions than in a typical waterfall project. What is different...

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Agile Discipline – Documentation 

There is a myth that Agile doesn't deliver documentation.  It's not true. We always do the documentation that is required during a BI project, such as design and as built documents, what differs is the way we create them and when. A waterfall project is all about...

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Developer Stories

[[developer stories vs user stories]] [[task oreinted]] [[team have to talk through the process/steps  they wil use to deliver the user story which is highly valuable in itself]] [[less than a days effort]] [[allows multiple developers to work on  user story...

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