AgileData Newsletter #10
The Agile Team Member should know What they are Working on and Why
Do you want to understand how your data team are feeling about their new agile way of working?
In this article we identify feedback you may hear that indicates the team need to iterate their way of working.
Comments such as:
“I’m working on xxxxx but it is a waste of time;”
One of the most important things for a team to understand is why they are working on something, it's amazing how often that context is missing.
Read more @ AgileData WoW
Finding Tiles
Sometimes when you are looking at your data lineage map you just want to be able to quickly and simply find a tile (table) somewhere in the map.
So we added a simple find tile option to our data map (as you would expect)
Watch another Gone in 60 Seconds video to see how it works.
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Disciplined Agile Toolkit
We love to define and reuse patterns, they make things easier, faster and safer, who can argue with that.
Scott Ambler has been posting about agile data patterns for a long long time.
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Scott Ambler about the Disciplined Agile Toolkit.
Listen to the No Nonsense Podcast or read the transcript @agiledata.io
Why Assumptions Are Just That
Every day the team make a bunch of assumptions as they build out the AgileData product.
Sometime those assumptions prove to be true, sometimes they don't.
The key is to apply an agile mindset and change what you are doing when your assumptions prove to be wrong.
One of the first wrong assumptions we made were in the area of data collection.
Read more @ AgileData.io
The Magic of Agile Data teams vs Agile Software Teams
Join Shane and special guest Lynn Winterboer as they discuss the core differences between teams that leverage an agile way of working while managing data versus creating software.