Introduction
As a Reader of these articles
I want to understand what they are about
So that I know whether I should keep reading
Hello
When I embarked on my AgileBI journey I didn’t understand how much of a journey it would be.
This series of articles is aimed at capturing the learning I have gather over this journey so far, in the hope that it will make your journey faster and more fun. I won’t say easier because in my experience any major change involves a fair amount of being uncomfortable and exposes constant challenges.
I also know that I have only touched the surface of AgileBI, and with every engagement I have I discover a new challenge and ideally a new solution for that challenge. So my aim is to provide Concepts, Processes and Templates that enables you to focus on the unkown areas, rather than struggling with the areas that have been explored before.
In my head there are six major areas that I can summarise the many facets of the AgileBI approach into:
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Agile Data Engineering – Hyper Adoption
Ralph Hughes covers extensively in his book the concept of delivering Agile Data Engineering using Hyper Normalisation and Hyper Generalisation modelling techniques.
AgileBI
As a BI Practitioner
I want to understand what AgileBI is and how it differs to Agile
So that I know what techniques to use (and whihc techniques not to)
AgileBI Process
As a BI Practitioner
I want to understand what AgileBI processes are
So that I know what processes to implement (and what processes not to)
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Trifacta = I can code! (and free data wrangling on your desktop)
Wrangling data as an analyst has always been a tricky issue. If you can code your can do whatever you need with your favourite tool. If you can’t you need to use a GUI data analysis tool.
Tirfacta is the latest in cool data analyst focussed GUI tools.
Hans Hultgren – Wellington Data Vault Modeling & Certification Course
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 Enterprise layer of a Data Warehouse (DW). Late last year we sent a couple of our DW experts to Sydney to attend Hans...
QlikSense Menus – They are all greek to me
We found an interesting issue with QlikSense 2.0 the other day, where the menu options all looked like Hieroglyphics or Greek characters rather than the english characters. A close up of the right hand menu shows the problem: The problem ended up being...
ODE – Just ship it!
Just Ship It Already! Steve Jobs said "Real Artists Ship" . Ma.tt has a great blog about shipping One point oh. And there is a loverly comment at the end of the blog that goes: "A great entrepreneur once told me that “an idea without execution is worthless.” We can...
MSD Marker Project – Better outcomes for New Zealand
I can never find this YouTube Video when I need it, so im putting it in a blog so I can find it next time. https://youtu.be/oK6T9DsH4SU