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NZ Scaleup AgileData achieves Google Cloud Ready – BigQuery Designation
AgileData has achieved Google Cloud Ready – BigQuery designation, streamlining data management for customers and partners. This certification confirms the integration’s functionality and reliability, reducing complexity through a low-code interface. By leveraging Google Cloud’s infrastructure and BigQuery, AgileData empowers business leaders to rapidly gain insights and make informed decisions efficiently.
The magic of DocOps
TD:LR Shane Gibson - AgileData.io Patterns like DocOps provide massive value by increasing collaboration across team members and automating manual tasks. But it still requires a high level of technical skills to work in a DocOps way. For the AgileData App and...
Iterations create milestone dates, milestone dates force trade off decisions to be made
Data teams struggle to not “boil the ocean” when doing data work.
Use milestones as a pattern to help the data team to focus on what really needs to be built and manage the trade-off decisions for what doesn’t.
Sprint Goals with Maarten Dalmijn
In this episode, Murray Robinson chats with Maarten Dalmijn about Sprint Goals. We discuss how sprint goals should act as a primary mission for a sprint, around which everyone’s tasks should revolve, rather than focusing on individual deliverables. We talk about challenges to implementing this approach, the importance of measuring outcomes over output, and the need for competency and trust in the team. This conversation highlights the importance open dialogue with stakeholders, and the necessity of adaptability in the face of uncertainty.
Your data team are mercenaries, define your ways of working based on this
Modern data teams are transient, often staying less than 5 years, unlike past decades of long-term loyalty.
Companies should adapt by defining robust Ways of Working (WoW) that endure beyond individual tenures.
Balancing in-house teams with reliable data vendors for continuity and efficiency may also be a useful pattern as part of your WoW.
I’m getting pedantic about semantics
TD:LR Shane Gibson - AgileData.io Having a shared language is important to help a data team create their shared ways of working. When we talk about self-service, we should always highlight which self-service pattern we are talking about. I'm getting pedantic about...
The Art of Data: Visualisation vs Storytelling
Data visualization is like painting with data, using charts and graphs to make trends and patterns easy to understand. It’s great for presenting data objectively.
Data storytelling weaves a narrative around data, adding context, engaging emotions, and inspiring action. It’s perfect for persuading stakeholders.
Ways of Working with Scott Ambler
Join Shane Gibson on the Agile Data Podcast for an enlightening conversation with Scott Ambler, an IT and Agile expert. Delve into Scott’s journey from pioneering programmer to data architecture and Agile methodologies. Discover the evolution of Agile data, the importance of adapting ways of working, and the pitfalls of best practices. Learn valuable insights into continuous improvement, team dynamics, and the complexities of data quality in today’s fast-paced IT landscape. Don’t miss this episode for an in-depth exploration of Agile data and its impact on IT projects and processes.
Most of your data is rotten and it’s not your fault, but it is your problem
Data quality is an expectation, not an exception.
While data quality is crucial, it’s not always directly our fault when issues arise, nevertheless, it remains our problem to solve.
Data Contracts are one pattern that can help us solve this problem.
Tesla and SpaceX with Joe Justice
In this episode, we talked to Joe Justice about how Tesla and Space X have developed a new operating model based on self-organizing teams that continuously discover, deliver, and improve to achieve a thousand year goal. It’s like the most radical combination of open space agility, OKR’s, Continuous Discovery, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Improvement, you can think of. Whatever you think of Elon Musk, these companies are way ahead of most other companies and accelerating further. Tune in for a fascinating discussion about how Tesla and Space X work.
NZ Scaleup AgileData achieves Google Cloud Ready – BigQuery Designation
AgileData has achieved Google Cloud Ready – BigQuery designation, streamlining data management for customers and partners. This certification confirms the integration’s functionality and reliability, reducing complexity through a low-code interface. By leveraging Google Cloud’s infrastructure and BigQuery, AgileData empowers business leaders to rapidly gain insights and make informed decisions efficiently.
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...