Agile Data Warehousing/ Business Intelligence: Addressing the hard problems

The world moves at a rapid pace, and your organization must be able to respond to changing conditions. Your DW/BI team is being asked to help end users answer new questions to gain new insights at an increasing pace. They need to become agile, but are struggling to do so.

In this session Scott Ambler addresses a series of difficult questions that DW/BI must have answers to if they are to learn how to work in a work in an agile manner:
· How can we proceed without modelling everything up front?
· What can we do when our users can’t tell us what data they need?
· How can we easily respond to changing requirements?
· How do we implement “vertical slices” of value?
· It takes weeks to analyse a legacy data source, how does that fit into a two-week sprint?
· How can we realistically deal with the quality problems of all the data sources that we work with, and usually aren’t responsible for?
· Our end users want updates in hours or days, how do we do that in two-week sprints?
· Is it realistic to evolve production data sources?
· How can we deliver new changes quickly into production?
· And more.

Organizations around the world have successfully adopted agile and lean ways of working (WoW) on the DW/BI teams. You can too.

Speaker Bio:
Scott Ambler is the Consulting Methodologist with Ambysoft Inc., leading the evolution of the Agile Data and Agile Modeling methods. Scott was the (co)-creator of PMI’s Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit and helps organizations around the world to improve their way of working (WoW) and ways of thinking (WoT). Scott is an international keynote speaker and the (co-)author of over 20 books, including Choose Your WoW!, Refactoring Databases, Agile Modeling, Agile Database Techniques, and The Object Primer 3rd Edition.

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