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5E’s
As Data Consultants your customers are buying and outcome based on one of these patterns – effort, expertise, experience or efficiency.
We outline what each of these are, how they are different to each other and how to charge for delivering them.
Conceptually Modeling Concepts, Details and Events in AgileData
Join Shane and Nigel as they discuss how and why we define a conceptual model of Concepts, Details and Events in AgileData and how we map these to a physical Data Vault model.
Agile-tecture Data Factory
Defining a Data Architecture is a key pattern when working in the data domain.
Its always tempting to boil the ocean when defining yours, don’t!
And once you have defined your data architecture, find a way to articulate and share it with simplicity.
Here is how we articulate the AgileData Data Agile-tecture.
Data Architecture as a Service (DAaaS)
TD:LR Data Architecture as a Service (DAaaS), is it Buzzwashing or not? As is often the case, it depends on your point of view. Our point of view? Nope its a real thing.
Myth: using the cloud for your data warehouse is expensive
TD:LR Cloud Data Platforms promise you the magic of storing your data and unlimited elastic compute for cents. Is it too good to be true? Yes AND No. You can run a cloud platform for a low low cost, but its will take engineering effort to get there. Myth: using the...
Agile and Product – Justin Bauer
Join Shane Gibson as he chats with Justin Bauer on his experience combining the worlds of agile and product in a data driven company.Guests Justin BauerShane GibsonResourcesSubscribe | Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | Amazon Audible | TuneIn | iHeartRadio |...
AgileData WoW Q&A – Hamish Gray and May-Lyn Hu
Join Shane Gibson, Hamish Gray and May-Lyn Hu as they talk through some of the experiences they have had in their organisation applying agile and data together in a new way of working.Guests Hamish Gray May-Lyn Hu Shane GibsonResourcesSubscribe | Apple Podcast |...
Observability, Tick
TD:LR Data observability is not something new, its a set of features every data platform should have to get the data jobs done. Observability is crucial as you scale Observability is very on trend right now. It feels like every other influencer in the data space is...
DataOps: The Magic Wand for Data Magicians
DataOps is a magical approach to data management, combining Agile, DevOps, and Lean Manufacturing principles. It fosters collaboration, agility, automation, continuous integration and delivery, and quality control. This empowers data magicians like you to work more efficiently, adapt to changing business requirements, and deliver high-quality, data-driven insights with confidence.
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Data and Analytics
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Google Cloud
Imparting knowledge on Google Cloud's capabilities and its role in data-driven workflows
Journey
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Product Management
Enrich your product management skills with practical patterns
What Is
Describing data and analytics concepts, terms, and technologies to enable better understanding
Resources
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AgileData Podcast
Discussing combining agile, product and data patterns.
No Nonsense Agile Podcast
Discussing agile and product ways of working.
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Why we chose Google Cloud as the infrastructure platform for AgileData
Pick a few things that really matter, not thousands of “requirements” We when first started developing the core of the AgileData backend for the MVP, we knew we would need a cloud database to store...
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...
Leading agile data at scale – Chris La Grange
Join Shane and Blair as they chat with Chris La Grange about leading agile data teams in large organisations.
A DataOps and Data Science Journey
Join Shane as he chats to Hamish and Liam in a pub in the middle of the North Island about their journey to adopting a way of working that combines DataOps with Data Science.
Maturing product owner capability
Join Shane and Blair as they chat amongst themselves on maturing the product owner capability.
Prototype to Production – Gerhard DeBeer
Join Shane and Blair as they chat with Gerhard DeBeer on moving prototypes to production in an agile way.
Innovation iteration
Join Shane and Blair as they chat amongst themselves on their experience running innovation iterations.
The art of Business Agility – Andy Cooper
Join Shane and Blair as they chat to Andy Cooper on his experience working with senior executives to help them introduce Business Agility to their organisations.Guests Andy CooperBlair TemperoShane GibsonResources...
Tips for a New Scrum Master – Blair Tempero
Join Shane and Blair as they chat about tips for up skilling a new scrum masterGuests Blair TemperoShane GibsonResources Subscribe | Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | Amazon Audible | TuneIn |...
The art of data story telling – Kat Greenbrook
Join Shane and Blair as they chat to Kat Greenbrook on her experience doing and training teams on Data Story telling.
The Life of a Awesome Product Owner – Hiria Te Rangi
Join Shane and Blair as they chat to Hiria Te Rangi on her experience of being and coaching awesome product owners.Guests Hiria Te RangiBlair TemperoShane GibsonResources Find out more about Hiria's social enterprise...
Adopting the AgileData Way of Working – Sam Sewell
Join Shane and Blair as they chat to Sam Sewell on his experience adopting the AgileData way of working as part of building a new agile team.
Thoughts of a new Scrum Master – Juan Dione
Join Shane and Blair as they chat to Juan Dione on his experience as a new scrum masterGuests Juan Dione Blair Tempero Shane GibsonResources Subscribe | Apple Podcast | Spotify | Google Podcast | Amazon Audible...
Google BigQuery – Online Training resources
As part of our journey to exploring the use of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the core of our infrastructure for AgileData.io we have had to start unlearning a lot of our AWS and Microsoft Azure knowledge and...
Its 2019 – Isn’t the Data Warehouse dead?
With the advent of self-service data discovery tools and big data platforms, the bold announcements of "the data warehouse is dead" started to ring out around the world. So why, you would ask, are we building a new...