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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How ‘disruptive innovation’ inspired us to get conference bags to kids.
At OptimalBI we don't sponsor a lot of conferences, but when the opportunity to sponsor the 25th annual GOVIS conference came up, we decided to go for it. We spend a lot our time working with Government organisations so it just made sense. This year's GOVIS conference...
Qlik Sense Desktop – Loading QVD
When using the Qlik Sense Desktop you can easily add Excel or CSV files to your new application by selecting them in the add data window. What I missed was the fact that this option also allows you to add a QVD easily as the source file. Just select "All Files" and...
Trifacta – Wrangling Dates (and yet another open data rant)
One of the pieces of data we use regularly is dates. Every data repository needs the ability to view the data by day, month, year, etc. There is often also a need to view data based on holidays. Funnily enough, you would think that a list of data containing the NZ...
Guided vs Discovery vs Blending Information Products
I have seen a massive change in the business intelligence, data and analytics tools our customers are buying and using over the last couple of years. The advent of data wrangling tools such as Trifacta, open-source analytics tools such as R and visual exploration...
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
AgileBI Discipline
As a BI Practitioner
I want to understand what AgileBI Disciplines are
So that I know what Disciplines to follow (and what Disciplines not to)
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.