The agile manifesto (www.agilemanifesto.org) suggests that working software should be delivered in short delivery cycles. To realize this, one of the practices that teams need is test automation.
On 19-June-2013 at 14:45, I will give a presentation on 25 techniques, guidelines, and skills useful for agile Business Intelligence at the TDWI European Conference. The topics for the presentation are outlined in Figure 1
Marketing is one of the departments whose effective use of business intelligence and analytics can have a direct impact on the organization’s top line revenue, a tier one-performance measure.
When I price a project, the last thing I want to do is inform the customer that we need additional money to deliver the same scope. It somehow defies logic to pay additional money before seeing any benefits from an initial investment. However, repeatedly this is what happens in information technology (IT) projects.
Issue 10 of Today’s Software Magazine has an article on “Going Agile” that provides an overview of the content of the book, excerpts related to cost management in agile projects, and do’s and don’ts on going agile. I will present the content of the article on on 04-April-2013 @ 19:30 .
Today, Federico Bellani released his research on the Adoption and Evolution of Agile Method Practices. The research is an extensive litature review supported by survey results from 194 worldwide participants and extensive survey analysis. Some of his findings on agile practices fall inline with the results from the VersionOne annual survey on the state of… Continue reading Federico Bellani on “Adoption and Evolution of Agile Practices Over Time”
At the “…even mammoths can be agile” conference…, I presented on using some of the practices described in Going agile Project Management Practices to help with the challenges and problems faced in agile projects.
“Projects too often get too big to succeed.”
In January 2013, David Stodder from TDWI Research issued the report Achieving Greater Agility with Business Intelligence. The report was based upon the results from 408 survey respondents, interviews, vendor briefings, and other TDWI research reports.TDWI provides education and research in the business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) industry. The following are some data… Continue reading TDWI Reports On Agile BI/Analytic Facts And Recommendations
On February 8, 2013, Service Performance Insight (SPI) released the 2013 Professional Services Maturity(tm) Benchmark. The report analyzes data from 234 organizations and 55,000 consultants that participated in a 2013 survey, and comparative data from five years of past survey data. SPI is a global research, consulting and training company.