Tag: Trac
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Our Toolbox – Essential Software
A data warehouse project will usually involve many pieces of software. These can be broken into two categories – architectural software and supporting tools. The architectural software will include the database, ETL tool, reporting tools, etc. but in this post I am going to look at the supporting tools we use. I should say from…
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The project wiki – a cost reduction tool
Some readers will be familiar with TED: Ideas Worth Spreading a series of talks on just about everything worthwhile in Technology, Education and Design. I recently revisited Yochai Benklers talk on the new open-source economics from 2005 where he explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organisation. The principle discussed is one…
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Project Services HowTo
Objective Project Services is an integration of software and doman knowledge. Data Management & Warehousing has an approach to building data warehouses. This approach includes a number of templates and white papers including approaches to architecture, governance and documentation. In order to run a project using this approach it is useful to have a change…
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Project Services
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…
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Configuration Management & Issue Tracking
One commonly overlooked side of building a data warehouse is the need for configuration management and issue tracking. This article looks at a way to do this. Since this article was written we have upgraded from Bugzilla to Trac and CVS to SVN and integrated in in our Project Services Introduction ETL tool transformations, data…
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