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  • Agile Data Warehousing Compared to Software Development

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    Wendy Gilbert
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    The best scrum teams are those with team members who are fungible, i.e., capable of mutual substitution. This is easier in some teams and organizations than others. In a perfect world, your scrum team would be made up of people who can analyse, map, model, code, test, etc. However, in most teams, especially those just…

  • Being Agile Versus Doing Agile

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    Wendy Gilbert
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    Agile training classes will teach you the elements of what it is to ‘do agile’, but to ‘be agile’ is to change the mindset of yourself, your team, and your organization, and put the focus on the core tenets of the Agile Manifesto. Business value Everything you do, every key you press, spec you write,…

  • Is Agile Data Warehousing Worthwile?

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    Wendy Gilbert
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    Data warehouses (DWs) built using waterfall methodologies are not doomed to failure. Despite the headlines we see of how often DWs fail, many of them do succeed. I worked on several DWs earlier in my career that used a traditional waterfall software development lifecycle (SDLC). In my experience, the projects were massively over schedule and…