Bookshelf

Here is our bookshelf, a list of useful and favorite books in the development of software, management of projects and business intelligence. Click on the image to see the Amazon description. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams…

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Agile Business Intelligence

This ETIS presentation from Cyprus in October 2011 This presentation describes what Agile really means for Business Intelligence and then describes some ways in which large organisations can make themselves more agile including: Team Structures Wiki-fy…

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Analysis by ETL …

Performing source-system analysis by writing ETL is just about the most expensive way you can do it; but many organisations do exactly that. Why? Because they “can’t afford” to do their analysis the cheaper way. No,…

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Agile Development of a BI application

Wandering around the web I found a presentation by Soren Burkhart of Hawaii Business Consulting, LLC given at the Rails Conference in Portland, Oregon (May 2007) that describes a classic agile approach to developing a Business Intelligence application…

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Can Business Intelligence Be Agile ?

The agile manifesto and it’s underlying principles set out four key values for developing software solutions: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan If an organisation is…

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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…

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