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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 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 semantics. In the Data Domain we...
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.
Essence with Ivar Jacobson
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson as they chat with Ivar Jacobson about Essence; a standard to develop patterns and pattern libraries that is being used by Scrum, SAFE, Lean and Kanban organisations. We discuss object oriented software engineering, use cases, UML, RUP, Essence and AI assisted method coaching. Join us to hear from one of the founders of the software engineering industry.
Are you delivering drills, holes or outcomes?
TD:LR Whether you're a Data Entrepreneur or an organisation looking for actionable insights, its the business outcome these insights help you achieve that is the most important thing. Yes you need a data platform and data to achieve these insights, but they are just...
The Art of Action with Stephen Bungay
Join Murray Robinson, Shane Gibson, and special guest Stephen Bungay to discuss how military principles like “Mission Command” can be applied to manage teams effectively in uncertain conditions.
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AgileData refactoring
Join Shane and Nigel as they discuss what refactoring is and why you should always plan to refactor your data, code and platform from day one.
3 types of product features
Our UX/UI journey is accelerating We are currently full steam into the development of the initial User Interface for AgileData.io. The team have done some awesome work on the UX designs for a bunch of the core screens,...
AgileData Patterns
Join Shane and Nigel as they discuss what agile data patterns are and how you can apply them to speed up the delivery of data to your stakeholders.
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...
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...
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 Minimal Magical Product (MMP), was which capabilities we would build vs which capabilities we would lease or buy. As part of our...
What problem(s) does AgileData 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....
Flying the airplane while building it – Jan Sheppard
Join Shane and Blair as they chat with Jan Sheppard about the experience of building a new agile way of working while still ensuring you are delivering data and analytical value to your stakeholders.
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.