Data Management & Warehousing

Tag: Mythical Man Month

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…