The Big Guess Up Front (BGUF)

by | Mar 6, 2016 | AgileBI

The way we used to deliver Business Intelligence projects was to do what I call the “big guess up front” (BGUF). Documents for Africa We would create massive Business Intelligence Strategy documents, which took months to create and get “signed...

The death of the 100 page BI Strategy

by | Feb 27, 2016 | AgileBI

The AgileBI approach has fundamentally changed the way and the more importantly the focus of why we deliver Business Intelligence strategies. In the Beginning Originally the BI strategy was aimed at defining the scope and expectations for Business Intelligence...

Retrospective – No Meetings

by | Feb 20, 2016 | AgileBI

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 …   One interesting...

AgileBI Culture Change – No Meetings

by | Feb 13, 2016 | AgileBI

A Massive Change 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. Everything from the way they plan, their level of accountability, the way they interact with their team, interact with...