As a BI Practitioner
I want to understand what AgileBI is and how it differs to Agile
So that I know what approaches to use (and which approaches not to)

When deliverying new Data, Analytics or Content in an AgileBI you have the benfit of leveraging the majority of the Agile approaches that have been defined and refined over the many years the various Agile approaches have been around.

But some of these some of these Agile approaches need to be tailored when delivering Data, Analytics and Content.  This is typically due to the complexity that comes with data we do not create or control.  AgileBI delivery is different to the typical “APP” development where the developer has control of both the way data is captured and the way it is presented.

For example I have found that using three weeks as a sprint iteration is more effective than the standard two weeks.

The articles below provide more details on the differences and the recommended techniques for deliverying in an AgileBI way.

AgileBI Team Articles

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...

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 …

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...

Other Blogs from this category

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...

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 …

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...

Other Blogs from this category

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...

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 …

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...