BI Problems – Data Requirements

BUSINESS USER BUSINESS ANALYST The Scenario? An analyst asks business users what they require to be delivered.  The business user articulates what they require and the analyst documents this in a standard requirements document template. But when the solution is...

We are BEAM’ing Lawrence Corr to NZ in 2015

As part of our adoption of AgileBI, we have started the journey using the BEAM* methodology, to introduce Agile in our requirements gathering and data modelling approach. We have used this approach on a couple of projects, and as Shaun has blogged, we have also done...

The Art of Weeding

The other weekend we weeded our garden at home. It was a funny old thing, one of us would start on an area that was covered in weeds, pull them out on mass and then eventually move on to another area (either believing we had done a good job and finished the area, or...