Done Done
Articles that are as completed as I will ever get them.
Adding members to the Agile Team makes you go slower
As a Stakeholder or Product Owner I want I want to understand if constantly adding Agile Team members is a good idea So that I can have a valid conversation with my Product Owner and Scrum Master Initially at least! VelocityWhen building a new AgileBI delivery team,...
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Who should attend Steering Committees?
As a Stakeholder or Product Owner
I want to understand who should attend the steering committee
So that I know I have the best representation
Project Managers who have done standups
As a Stakeholder or Product Owner
I want to understand what experience a Project Manager needs
So that I know if they are suitable as a scrum master
The challenges and risks of being an Agile BI Manager
As a BI Manager
I want to understand what risk and challenges I will encounter
So that I know what I am getting myself into
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
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
The death of the 100 page BI Strategy
As a Stakeholder or Product Owner
I want to understand where the BI strategy fits into the AgileBI process
So that I know when I need to have it created
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
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
Done
Articles that are as completed but need to be reviewed at some stage.
The Agile Team member should know what they are working on and why
As a AgileBI Coach
I want I want to understand how to determine if the AgileBI Team are in a healthy state
So that I can keep the sprint team engaged
Remote Scrum Masters
As a Stakeholder or Product Owner
I want some examples of things that can fail in AgileBI
So that I know what to watch out for
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
Underway
Articles that I am currently working on.
Stakeholder Onion
As a product owner I want I want to understand how to identify my stakeholders So that I know who can tell me what to do and who to tell what we are doing Other Blogs from this...
read moreGathering Data Requirements
As a scrum master I want I want to understand how to make retrospectives fun So that I can keep the sprint team engaged The Data Requirements Gap There are two typical challenges when we gather data requirements. First, we capture and document the requirements in a...
read moreStandups 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...
read moreThe 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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Requirements
As a Developer
I want to understand how to gather requirements
So that I can actually use them to deliver something of value
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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Musings, Ramblings and Structure
As a Reader of this site
I want to understand what it is about
So that I know whether I should keep reading
Time boxing effort as acceptance criteria of last resort
As a Product Owner or Developer I want I want to understand how to deal with a lack of clear acceptance criteria So that I don't delay delivery Acceptance criteria for a user story is crucial. Without it the development team and product owner...
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Before the build
As a BI Manager I want to understand what risk and challenges I will encounter So that I know what I am getting myself into Ideally you can jump straight into the delivery stage in the AgileBI process, where you already have: Permission to have a dedicated...
read moreRefined
Articles that have bullet points added, which effectively are my acceptance criteria of the content.
Agile Engineering
As a BI Manager I want to understand what risk and challenges I will encounter So 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...
read moreBusiness 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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Leveraging the collective knowledge of others
As a Reader of these articles
I want I want to understand who authored them
So that so I can give credit where credit is due
Information Product Roadmap
As a Product Owner I want to understand how to visualise the delivery roadmap So that stakeholders will feel comfortable we have a long term plan Ralph Hughes [[ken??? ]] in his book [[????]] discusses the...
read moreFit for purpose documentation
As a Developer I want to understand what level of documentation should be delivered So that I know how much to do and what not to do One of the many myths about Agile, is that the Agile team do not do...
read moreScaling AgileBI Teams
[[collaboration and collisions]] [[scrum of scrims for ltd of teams, aka sAfe]] [[where do the multiple teams have to talk together, daily stand ups, retrospectives, demo day]] [[two much detail, sprint planning, back gold grooming]] [[have sprint leads attend both...
read moreMega Visioning
With the death of the 100 page Business Intellgience strategy how do you get your stakeholders to come on the journey and agree to invest in the time for your AgileBI to create new data and content for them. With a waterfall project the process is well know, you do...
read moreData Discovery
As a Developer I want to understand when and how to understand the source data So that I can be sure I can build the things in the users stories and as an input to the estimate of the effort required Often the majority of the AgileBI team are technically...
read moreBacklogged
Articles that have a title and not much else.
Wireframing to confirm requirements
As a developer I want I want to understand how to use wireframing to confirm requirements So that I can build the right thing Wireframing is a technique we use to confirm two things: How does the user wish to see the content presented? Have we identified...
read moreThree Agile Testing Methods – TDD, ATDD and BDD
As a Product Owner or Developer I want I want to understand the different Agile testing methods So that I can decide which to useIn the word of Agile, there are currently three methods that can be used to improve our testing practices and to assist with enabling...
read moreMinimum Viable Product
As a Product Owner or Developer I want I want to understand how a Minimum Viable Product relates to AgileBI So that I can deliver faster and safer One of the ways to deliver quickly is to focus on what is often termed in Agile as a “Minimum Viable Product...
read moreTest 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...
read moreBusiness 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...
read moreBenevolent 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 progress...
read moreBy perspective
Entities, dimensions all the other words. Lens Perspective By customer By time By ....
read moreInitiation 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]]
read moreFAQs 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 the top 10...
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