Why Agile is Like Football
In any team sport, there are persons who never score. Test your trivia mind on that! They do not play defense or offense, never call a play, never take a …
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A Day in the Life
The Beatles’ famous song “A Day in the Life” begins by sharing how the singer started his day with a specific habitual regiment. You know what I …
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Data Model Patterns for Agile Projects
This is the fourth column in my series about applying Agile techniques to data projects in our Tips and Tricks from the Trenches Column. This column’s goal …
Data Governance Toolset Disruption is Coming
Something is coming in technology that may not wreak havoc in the area of data governance, but it should at least shake things up a bit. Just like with the …
Data Professional Introspective: Coming in From the Cold
The Enterprise Data Management Organization In working with both commercial companies and Federal and State agencies, I’ve found that many organizations …
Data Science is Sexy
As titles go, this one has an impeccable pedigree. In October of 2012, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) published an article entitled “Data Scientist: The …
Data Warehousing in the 21st Century
To be a successful relative company in the 21st century, analytics is no longer an option, but a requirement. Yet, with all of the conflicting information …
The Book Look: After Action Review – Continuous Improvement Made Easy
Sometimes we read a book that contains fundamental yet powerful ideas. Ideas that we might have been aware of, and maybe even applied informally at one point, …
Using Standards to Govern Data
This article is all about operational data governance. If you haven’t read Bob Seiner’s original article on what it means to govern data, you may want to …
The Agile Enterprise Coach
When your organization chooses to transition into more agile and leaner ways of working, you quickly discover that this effort needs to address all aspects of …