Data Management & Warehousing

Tag: Agile

  • Bookshelf

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    Here is our bookshelf, a list of useful and favorite books in the development of software, management of projects and business intelligence. Click on the image to see the Amazon description. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister (1988) [amazon asin=0932633056&template=thumbnail&chan=default] The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks…

  • Agile Business Intelligence

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    This ETIS presentation from Cyprus in October 2011 This presentation describes what Agile really means for Business Intelligence and then describes some ways in which large organisations can make themselves more agile including: Team Structures Wiki-fy Everything Use A Dedicated Platform Build Literal Staging Areas Throw out your ETL Tool? More Dynamic Reporting Tools Develop reports with…

  • At last someone we understand …

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    It is rare with all the background reading and research that I have to do that I read a contemporary book and say “Yes, this guy gets it” – notice that I say contemporary. There are plenty of good books about the day-to-day business intelligence problems that I see which were written over 20 years…

  • Data Warehouse Appliances – Fad or Future?

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    This article was originally written for Conspectus Magazine in December 2006 and has been updated in November 2009 by the original author Despite all the hype from vendors the basics of data warehousing have remained fundamentally unchanged – extract data from multiple source systems, reformat the information into an easy to query structure, load it into a…

  • Analysis by ETL …

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    Performing source-system analysis by writing ETL is just about the most expensive way you can do it; but many organisations do exactly that. Why? Because they “can’t afford” to do their analysis the cheaper way. No, this does not make sense. This is how it works… In most data warehousing projects, business analysts are separated…

  • Agile Development of a BI application

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    Wandering around the web I found a presentation by Soren Burkhart of Hawaii Business Consulting, LLC given at the Rails Conference in Portland, Oregon (May 2007) that describes a classic agile approach to developing a Business Intelligence application for the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) of the US Department of the Treasury. It demonstrates the collecting of…

  • Can Business Intelligence Be Agile ?

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    The agile manifesto and it’s underlying principles set out four key values for developing software solutions: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan If an organisation is willing to accept these values for software development then how much more important should adoption of them be for…

  • ETIS – The global IT association for telecommunications

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    ETIS (http://etis.org) is a membership based organisation which brings together the major telecommunications providers in Europe on key information and communication technology issues. The mission of ETIS is to enable its members to improve their business performance by personal exchange of information on using ICT effectively. ETIS achieves this by engaging its members in various working…

  • Project Services

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    Welcome to Project Services In the Data Management & Warehousing White Paper Data Warehouse Governance the importance of change control and issue tracking to a successful data warehousing project are highlighted. This paper also highlights the importance of a lightweight or agile development methodology and how using a wiki can help improve the develpment process. Project Services offers the following: A demonstration…