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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Visualising your Linked in Network
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BI Platform in 3 months – Lesson #2 – Use IaaS you cant afford time to get servers
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An Innovative thought – Shared data across all my mobile devices
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How do you make something you have done reusable to somebody else?
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SUNZ preso’s have been popular
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What is a good culture? (apart from blue cheese of course)
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BI Platform in 3 months – Lesson #1 – Change your business owners engagement frequency
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Some Innovations are big, some are small, some make the boat go faster
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