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Project Managers who have done standups
Often you will get somebody join your team as a Scrum Master who has in a previous life been a...
The Agile Team member should know what they are working on and why
Feel the Buzz One of the things I love about working with a team who are delivering using an Agile...
Reducing Manual Effort, Everywhere, Every-time
Some tasks seem really small and only take minutes, but multiply that effort by completing that task a hundred times and you have found a task that should be automated. Collect your data In AgileData.io we automate the...
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. Test Driven Development (TDD) Acceptance Test Driven...
Agile Gathering Data Requirements
The Data Requirements Gap There are two typical challenges when we gather data requirements. First, we need to capture and document the requirements in a way the person providing them understands, so they can review...
Adding members to the Agile Team makes you slower
Velocity When building a new data and analytics agile delivery team, it takes a while to achieve what is referred to as full velocity. Velocity is a metric used to measure the work done. At the end of each delivery...
Why assumptions are just that
When we first sketched out our plans for AgileData.io we were pretty clear what AgileData.io would do and what it wouldn’t do. Those assumptions didn’t last long. Combine with magic We knew we wanted to focus on what...
Micro Actions, ensuring a little bit of Magic Happens Here everytime
We are currently doing some work on creating rule patterns that enable us to automagically find duplicate Concept values and create a master view of them. For example creating a master view of Customers, or a master...
Buy, Build or Lease
One of the (many) things we needed to decide when we started to build out the AgileData.io MVP, was which capabilities we would build vs which capabilities we would buy or lease. We have a defined principle of lease...
What problem(s) does AgileData.io solve?
This should be an easy one for me to answer right? Understand the customers problem first We get told in startup land that you need to understand the customers problem in-depth, before you start building your product....
Why we chose Google Cloud as the infrastructure platform for AgileData.io
Pick a few things that really matter, not thousands of “requirements”We when first started developing the core of the AgileData.io backend for the MVP, we knew we would need a cloud database to store customers data.We...