AgileBI Delivery
As a BI Practitioner
I want to understand how to deliver in an AgileBI way
So that I can deliver faster and with less risk
There are a number of Agile focussed delivery techniques that you should implement when deliverying Data, Analytics or Visualisations in an AgileBI way.
There are also a raft of waterfall focussed techniques, that have minimal value in an AgileBI approach and so should be avoided if possible.
The articles below provide more details on both.
Requirements
Evaluating BI tools – Don’t get left hanging
Evaluating BI tools used to be easy. You either took a stack approach and picked a vendor first, then selected the modules you wanted to use from their product catalog. Or you picked one thing you wanted to do extremely well and selected a best of breed product/vendor...
Hans Hultgren – The 2016 NZ Data Vault Certification Tour
As you may have worked out if you have been reading our blogs for a while, we are big fans of the Data Vault approach as a way of automating the Integration layer of a Data Warehouse (DW). In 2014, we sent a couple of our DW experts to Sydney to attend Hans...
The challenges and risks of being an Agile BI Manager
As a BI manager who decides to empower their team by introducing an AgileBI approach, there is a massive amount of risk in that simple action.
The Big Guess Up Front (BGUF)
The way we used to deliver Business Intelligence projects was to do what I call the “big guess up front” (BGUF). No more!
Boil boil toil and trouble – 3 Data Mining recipes
As part of the work we are doing to develop our one-day workshop titled 'from data analyst to data scientist', we have been researching the CRISP-DM methodology as it's a core part of one of the workshop modules. There are three main data mining methodologies that are...
The death of the 100 page BI Strategy
The AgileBI approach has fundamentally changed the way and the more importantly the focus of why we deliver Business Intelligence strategies.
AWS – Remember to check your Region
We play with a lot of the new stuff in AWS when it comes out to see what it does, how it works and to think about how we can incorporate it into what we do to remove manual effort. Every now and again we see a feature documented and for some reason can't seem to find...
Retrospective – No Meetings
As I outlined in my earlier blog AgileBI fundamentally changes the team’s traditional view of meetings. It’s interesting watching how new teams adapt to this change. An example from one of the teams I worked with recently is …
AgileBI Culture Change – No Meetings
One of the biggest challenges of using Agile methods to deliver BI projects, is the massive change in the way the team has to work.
3 Free Things
I was talking to somebody recently who had been dropped into the deep end in the world of Business Intelligence (so to speak) at their organisation and wanted to know what was required to be able to deliver information and some advanced analytical models. I was...
Gartner Magic Quadrant 2016 – The BI Landscape has finally changed.
Gartner have released their Magic Quadrant for 2016 and OMG the BI market has substantially changed according to Gartner. In fact, for those of us who love more emotive sentences, you could say there has been a blood bath! The first thing to notice is that...
Agile Data Engineering – Hyper Adoption
Ralph Hughes covers extensively in his book the concept of delivering Agile Data Engineering using Hyper Normalisation and Hyper Generalisation modelling techniques.
AgileBI
As a BI Practitioner
I want to understand what AgileBI is and how it differs to Agile
So that I know what techniques to use (and whihc techniques not to)
AgileBI Process
As a BI Practitioner
I want to understand what AgileBI processes are
So that I know what processes to implement (and what processes not to)
Building AgileBI Block by Block – Agile Data Modelling = Data Vault
An awesome Data Vault course We had the privilege of hosting Hans Hultgren in our Wellington offices this week for his 3 day Data Vault Certification course. It was a great three days and confirmed for me that we have found another crucial lego block in our AgileBI...
Trifacta = I can code! (and free data wrangling on your desktop)
Wrangling data as an analyst has always been a tricky issue. If you can code your can do whatever you need with your favourite tool. If you can’t you need to use a GUI data analysis tool.
Tirfacta is the latest in cool data analyst focussed GUI tools.
Hans Hultgren – Wellington Data Vault Modeling & Certification Course
As you may have worked out if you have been reading our blogs for a while, we are big fans of the Data Vault approach as a way of automating the Enterprise layer of a Data Warehouse (DW). Late last year we sent a couple of our DW experts to Sydney to attend Hans...
QlikSense Menus – They are all greek to me
We found an interesting issue with QlikSense 2.0 the other day, where the menu options all looked like Hieroglyphics or Greek characters rather than the english characters. A close up of the right hand menu shows the problem: The problem ended up being...
ODE – Just ship it!
Just Ship It Already! Steve Jobs said "Real Artists Ship" . Ma.tt has a great blog about shipping One point oh. And there is a loverly comment at the end of the blog that goes: "A great entrepreneur once told me that “an idea without execution is worthless.” We can...
MSD Marker Project – Better outcomes for New Zealand
I can never find this YouTube Video when I need it, so im putting it in a blog so I can find it next time. https://youtu.be/oK6T9DsH4SU
BI Problems – Data Requirements
BUSINESS USER BUSINESS ANALYST The Scenario? An analyst asks business users what they require to be delivered. The business user articulates what they require and the analyst documents this in a standard requirements document template. But when the solution is...