AgileBI Team
As a BI Practitioner
I want to understand what an AgileBI team is and isn’t
So that I know how to form and storm one
Building a self organising team is one of the key factors required to deliver in an AgileBI way.
Creating a team with T-Skills and helping them through the process of forming, storming and norming is a mssive challenge.
The articles below provide more details on how to achieve this.
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To blog or not to blog ……
I returned a while ago from four weeks overseas in a family holiday. I had thought I would spend the down time in the evening catching up with my reading and writing some blogs I have had in my head for a while. I managed to achieve one of the two. If you follow our...
? vs ?
As you may have noticed we have launched Poli vs Poli, a micro website that shows a number of metrics based on tweets about New Zealand politicians. Somebody asked me the other days where the Idea came from. We had the idea a few years ago before the last election....
Complexity is often the basis for making something simple
When we launched MagnumBI our goal was to make Business Intelligence as simple as possible for our customers. As a result we have ended up building a fairly complex architecture under the covers. Why you might ask? If you think about Dropbox it's a very simple product...
When presenting, present what counts for your audience first
I have been to a few conferences and presentations this year. A big part of my role is to look to the future to see what is new in the world of Business Intelligence and what it could mean for our customers. So attending these (along with lots of research and...
Sex Sells – What about Advanced Analytics Tools?
When I was working in Presales at Oracle, doing penance by trying to sell Oracle Applications, I got my butt constantly whopped by Peoplesoft. Why? Sex Sells! Yes they had a few features we didn't (date effective GL hierarchies were a killer), but we had "the stack",...
Cloud – The rate of change is going to make administrators jobs …. different
As I read this blog post on an interesting idea around how to get help up-skilling on the the cloud providers (AWS etc) i reflected on the rate of change we are seeing in the software market and what that means to administrators that are responsible for managing this...
The Wellington contractor market is changing – watch out
Its a very interesting time for the contractor market in Wellington this year, a number of major changes by Government last year, coupled with some some other factors has made the market tight for contractors and my view is it will get tighter as we head into 2014. So...
Gartner Magic Quadrant – “Advanced” Analytics 2014
It's that time of year again when Gartner publish their BI related magic quadrants and the vendors all blog. tweet and email the good news of where they sit. This year Gartner released a new quadrant, focussed on Advanced Analytics vendors. Here it is: I'm a...
Webstock – The Internet removes barriers
My current standing joke is: “I have a great product idea i’m about to launch I just have to figure out how to build it and then how to sell it” At Webstock one of the many great presentations was by Spoek Mathambo about how the internet is changing things for music in South Africa. […]