One feature to rule them all As product managers we are always looking for the next “killer...
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3 types of product features
Our UX/UI journey is accelerating We are currently full steam into the development of the initial...
The dangers of a Big Guess Up Front (BGUF)
The way we used to deliver data and analytics projects was to do what I call the “big guess up...
Who should attend Steering Committees?
Be don't Do If you are operating under a construct that has a Steering Committee, you are probably not operating as an agile organisation. If you are not an agile organisation your data team will struggle to “be” agile...
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 Project Manager. It seems to be the natural transition, to move from a being Project Manager to being a Scrum Master. In my...
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 Data way of working is the buzz that happens when they are doing it well. There is the buzz as you sit at a Prove It...
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...