AgileData Newsletter #1
Why we founded AgileData
My co-founder Nigel and I have been working in the data and analytics domain for over 30 years (well I have, he is slightly younger).
We have both held multiple roles through these years, Nigel primarily in the engineering space and myself in the pre-sales then architecture and finally agile coaching space.
We have worked off and on together as consultants on a myriad of customer data and analytics projects.
After a number projects together we came to the conclusion that the data and analytics market had a dirty little secret, and that secret is there is a massive rate of failure for data and analytics projects.
And this secret is not a particularly well hidden secret or a secret that only we have discovered.
In 2011 Gartner stated:
“Between 70% to 80% of corporate business intelligence projects fail, according to research by analyst firm Gartner.”
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Data Catalog
There is no point in creating and managing all that data if nobody can find it, understand what it is, know if they can trust it and understand what it can and cant be used for.
So we built a Data Catalog capability within the AgileData Product, which enables users to easily browse your data.
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Sharing our AgileData (WoW)
At AgileData we believe sharing is caring and we love to share the principles, practices and patterns that have helped data and analytics teams over the years.
Find an agile pattern that will help you and your team @wow.agiledata.io
Agile and Flow
In this No Nonsense #agile #podcast ✨Shane Gibson and Murray Robinson chat to Staffan Noteberg about Agile and Flow.
Most data & analytics teams default to a flow based way of working, it just seems to fit with the work they do. Steffan talks about:
Agile is about adapting to unexpected change;
Coaches should be practitioners;
Speed up your feedback loop;
Set the goal and let the team get on with it;
Monotasking;
Set up the environment to reduce interruptions;
Start small, get things working and scale out.
Listen to the podcast or read the transcript @ AgileData.io
Adopting the AgileData Way of Working
On this AgileData podcast, Shane and Blair chat to Sam Sewell on his experience adopting the AgileData way of working as part of building a new agile team.