Visit http://tdwi.org for more information on business intelligence and data warehousing training and education. Jim Erickson, Philip Russom, and Paul Kautza discuss Agile BI at the TDWI World Conference in San Diego 2011.
I have to disagree with Phil's assessment that Agile is about prototyping and moving faster and then returning to shore up quality later. Agile DW/BI is about doing production quality work right from the start and incrementally evolving the RIGHT solution and models. By testing as we go, and designing/building what is needed as its needed, we avoid over-design and back-end loading the QA. Agile is much more about building the right thing of high quality than it is about building faster.
I have to disagree with Phil's assessment that Agile is about prototyping and moving faster and then returning to shore up quality later. Agile DW/BI is about doing production quality work right from the start and incrementally evolving the RIGHT solution and models. By testing as we go, and designing/building what is needed as its needed, we avoid over-design and back-end loading the QA. Agile is much more about building the right thing of high quality than it is about building faster.
PhlatPikker 5 months ago