We no longer need to manually track the state of a table, when it was created, when it was updated, which data pipeline last touched it …. all these data points are available by doing a simple call to the logging and bigquery api. Under the covers the google cloud platform is already tracking everything we need … every insert, update, delete, create, load, drop, alter is being captured
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Assessing agile capability
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about assessing the agile capability of individuals, teams and partners.
Three Agile Testing Methods – TDD, ATDD and BDD
In the word of agile, there are three common testing techniques that can be used to improve our testing practices and to assist with enabling automated testing.
Tony Ulwick – Outcome driven innovation
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about Outcome-Driven Innovation with Tony Ulwick. Most products fail in the market because they don’t meet customers’ needs better than the alternatives
Scaling data teams – Tammy Leahy
Shane Gibson chats to Tammy Leahy about how she helped scale the data teams she leads.
Debbie Levitt – UX design
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about UX design with Debbie Levitt. UX Design is research based information architecture and interaction design that requires deep expertise.
Data Products
Join Shane and guest Eric Broda as they discuss data products.
Tom Gilb – Software metrics
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about Software Metrics with Tom Gilb. Tom Gilb inspired the authors of the Agile manifesto with his innovative incremental and scientific approach to Software Engineering. In this podcast we talk about Evo and Value Agile.
Todd Lankford – Agile anti patterns
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about Agile anti patterns with Todd Lankford. Patterns are common solutions to common problems.
Erik de Bos – Agile is a paradigm shift
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about Agile as a paradigm shift with Erik de Bos. Most organisations are slow moving bureaucracies defined by authoritarian hierarchies, rules and contracts. Agile is a completely new way of thinking and a new vocabulary which makes new concepts and information available.
Team Skills vs Roles
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation about effective agile product teams. Business people and technical people work together daily in one long-lasting customer-focused team. Roles vs Skills. The power of words. Do titles create hierarchy and functional silos within the team? T-shaped people. Should everyone be a developer? Are specialised roles useful? Specialists need to be on the team all the way through. Should people be paid the same and treated the same? Long-lasting product teams vs project teams. The best requirements, architecture and design come from self-managed teams. Servant leadership vs hierarchy. Teams have multiple leaders. One united product team across vendors and organisations.
Using a manifest concept to run data pipelines
TD:LR … you don’t always need to use DAGs to orchestrate Previously we talked about how we use an ephemeral Serverless architecture based on Google Cloud Functions and Google PubSub Messaging to run our customer data...
NZ Census Data
Get access to New Zealand Census data in a way that is so easy you will never have to access the Stats NZ website again.
Google Analytics
Store your Google Analytics data for more than 14 months, and we throw in a few gorgeous Dashboards to boot.
“Serverless” Data Processing
TD:LR When we dreamed up AgileData and started white-boarding ideas around architecture, one of the patterns we were adamant that we would leverage, would be Serverless. This posts explains why we were adamant and what...
Shopify
AgileData delivers beautiful dashboards for your Shopify data
Agile and flow with Staffan Noteberg
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Staffan Noteberg about Agile and Flow. Agile is about adapting to unexpected change.
A Data Engineer an Agile Coach and a Fish walk into a bar…
This is the first of a series of articles detailing how we built a platform to make data fun and remove complexity for our users
Mary and Tom Poppendieck – Lean software development
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Mary and Tom Poppendieck about Lean and Software Development. Organizations have queues because they don’t care about the customer.
Bruce Taylor – Working with offshore teams
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Bruce Taylor about working with offshore teams in developing countries. Why do people send their work offshore? Cost or talent? Is it cheaper to send work offshore or not?
Kyle Griffin – Uncertainty, complexity and change
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Kyle Griffin about uncertainty, complexity and change. Our requirements are probably wrong. So show people and build small bets. Our plan is likely to be...