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How To Succeed With Agile Business Intelligence: Learn The Steps That Will Help You To Quickly Deliver Value With Agile Business Intelligence, And Set Up Your Project Team For Success. - Softcover
Synopsis
Learn the steps that will help you to quickly deliver value with Agile Business Intelligence, and set up your project team for success. This book includes the lessons you wish you had known about before you worked on your first Agile project in the Business Intelligence space. As Scott Ambler puts it:
"If you want to learn how to successfully take an agile approach to business intelligence (BI) initiatives, you need to read this book."
-- Scott Ambler, author of Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner's Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise (IBM Press)
Step into the world of Smart Electronics International (SEI), a company on the brink of a data-driven revolution. Jeff, the Group Controller, is thrown into chaos as SEI acquires Electronic Parts Company (EPC). Jeff struggles day and night to wrangle data for crucial meetings. With the looming mountain of sales data, panic sets in.
Enter Lisa, the experienced Agile consultant who will help Jeff and the SEI team apply Agile to their business intelligence project! Join Lisa and Jeff as they overhaul SEI’s approach to collecting and sharing business insights and discover how to apply Agile to the business intelligence space. Follow their story and learn how to succeed with Agile in your business intelligence projects.
"The book convinced me so much that I will include the content in my Business Intelligence and Data Literacy lecture. It teaches important future skills in the field of agile methods and how to apply them in BI projects."
-- Prof. Dr. Peter Richard, Professor of Business Informatics at the University of Applied Sciences Hochschule Augsburg
“I hear that Agile is chaos and no plan, how can Agile help me?"
If you haven’t said this yourself, chances are that your boss or your colleagues will have said it. It’s a common misconception that Agile is the same as no planning. In this book, we review the disciplined approach to Agile development and how it applies specifically to Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects.
The book shares the story of a specific project, how Lisa and Jeff approached the planning and execution, and the practices that you need to have in place to ensure your project not only succeeds, but also starts delivering value in the very early stages. To make sure you gain the trust of your stakeholders!
“Sure, Agile may work, but my projects are so complex and with so many dependencies, that Agile can’t scale to that level of complexity!"
This is a very common objection we hear, and it is quite right. The simplistic methods that many Agile practitioners want to apply won’t work for high complexity projects, or even multi-project environments that are common in BI projects.
That’s why we developed our own approach to tackle different levels of complexity, and adapt our method to the context of each BI project. In this book we review projects that are front-end heavy, with little else, but we also share our approach to multi-project contexts, where Agile BI needs to co-exist with other (already ongoing) Waterfall projects.
The core of Agile is adaptability, and how to adopt Agile needs to accommodate the context of your project.
"But, how do I get my manager to accept the use of Agile in my BI project?”
Gaining the trust of the stakeholders must be at the top of our list. That’s why we go into detail on how to start delivering value in your project quickly. Quick value delivery generates valuable feedback, gets users involved, and gains the trust of management.
The advantages of the approach and method we describe in this book are so big, that by the end of the book Agile BI will become the default approach for you, and we will give you the step-by-step journey to move away from Waterfall and start ripping the business benefits of Agile BI!
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