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By: Agile pratices and methods applied to BI « Analytical Mind

Agile pratices and methods applied to BI « Analytical Mind — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:05:14 +0000

[...] which Agile practices and methods could be used in the context of a BI project, I came across this post that presents some of the Agile development methodologies available. I’m proposing below [...]

By: Martin Proulx

Martin Proulx — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:43:56 +0000

Great post. Although few people can see the obvious benefit at this point in time, I agree Agile is the way to go for all BI projects – unless of course, you wish to spend too much and get delays with your project

You may be interested in a recent post about the benefits of Agile BI (http://analytical-mind.com/2009/04/27/we-have-a-huge-budget-and-too-much-time-to-complete-our-business-intelligence-bi-project/).

By: jbbaird

jbbaird — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:21:23 +0000

Agile methodologies can constructively influence BI projects with in the three major ways you mention. There are SOME Agile concepts that directly and productively apply to BI efforts but many others are problematic.

But Wholesale adoption of Agile methodologies for BI (and anything else if you ask me) is destructive. Sprints appear to help get a project over a certain line to meet a minimum threshold – they do not promote standards, they often force comprises to extensibility and they ignore additional value, benefit and support of business objectives that could be accommodated if folks were not hung up on some arbitrary ittereation with a functional threshold.

How often have you seen someone allocate time to go back and shore up compromises that are in the “completed” work from a sprint?

By: Björn Tångeberg

Björn Tångeberg — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:30:22 +0000

Hi !

We’ve used SCRUM for BI-development for 6 months now, running 3 week sprints. We had to make some small modifications in order to make it work. Overall we are delivering more value to the business in less time and with less resources.

By: Natheer Gharaibeh

Natheer Gharaibeh — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:39:45 +0000

Using Agile in developing BI applications is reallu good option, i said option because there are many other options including several Software Development Methodologies, So this require a lot of work in order to prove that Agile is the best for developing BI applications

in my opinionwe first must show how to use agile in developing DSS,then for BI……

By: Natheer Gharaibeh

Natheer Gharaibeh — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:56:57 +0000

I think it is great idea ,to use Agile in developing BI applications, i am also intrested in how to use agile in developing DSS…..

if we initiate Agile methodology for building DSS ,then it will be easy to build BI applications using Agle

By: natheer

natheer — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:34:07 +0000

i think it is great idea ,to use Agile in developing BI applications, i am also intrested in how to use agile in developing DSS…..

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:15:24 +0000

I think most BI projects, and even most corporate IT departments, would benefit from a more agile approach to pretty much everything. I highly recommend that every IT professional, developer, sys admin or whatever, read the Pragmatic Programmer.