AgileData Journey Articles

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

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 we automate the collection of your data from your systems of capture...

Why assumptions are just that

When we first sketched out our plans for AgileData we were pretty clear what AgileData 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 we call the middle of the data supply chain. We want to...

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 first. Our definition of lease means we are using a...

Reducing Manual Effort, Everywhere, Every-time

Reducing Manual Effort, Everywhere, Every-time

Jun 26, 2020 | AgileData Journey, Blog, Product Management

Some tasks seem really small and only take minutes, but multiply that effort by completing that...

Why assumptions are just that

Why assumptions are just that

May 29, 2020 | AgileData Journey, Blog, Product Management

When we first sketched out our plans for AgileData we were pretty clear what AgileData would do...

Buy, Build or Lease

Buy, Build or Lease

May 22, 2020 | AgileData Journey, Blog, Product Management

One of the (many) things we needed to decide when we started to build out the AgileData.io MVP,...

What problem(s) does AgileData solve?

May 18, 2020 | AgileData Journey, Blog, Product Management

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

Apr 15, 2020 | AgileData Journey, Blog, Google Cloud

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

Apr 9, 2020 | AgileData Journey, Blog

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...