Lean Data Governance Strategies
The goal of data governance is to ensure the quality, availability, integrity, security, and usability within an organization. The way…
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The Book Look: The Elephant in the Fridge
Guided Steps to Data Vault Success through Building Business-Centered Models John Giles wrote The Nimble Elephant a number of years…
Agile vs. Lean Project Management
The perfect project management style has yet to be discovered. For the curious project owner, exploring all the different project…
Project Management Advice from the Masters
Project management is the subtle art of carrying out a plan. Drafting up a plan for a project that encapsulates…
Agile Project Management with Jira
Jira Software is the most popular project management software tool used by agile teams. Jira’s popularity is due in part…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: A Tool for Agile Data Transformation (MDOX)
Data Transformation is usually thought of in the context of database ETL (Extraction, Transformation, and Loading)— i.e. moving data wholesale…
Applying Top-Down, Big-Picture Models to a Data Vault Part 1
Data Vaults have enormous potential to deliver value, but to do so, we’ve got to turn the spotlight off the…
Tales & Tips from the Trenches: Agile Data Summary
Welcome to the wrap-up column in our series on applying Agile techniques to data projects in our Tales and Tips…
Paying Down Semantic Debt
In my last piece, “Where does semantic debt come from?,” I described the Semantic Debt Life-cycle. At a higher level,…
A Lesson for Data Pros – Agility is for Everyone
Over the years, I’ve learned that for agile teams to succeed, everyone – from team members to those who interact…