Curing the Common Hangover
The following post was originally published by the Cutter Consortium as an e-mail advisor for the Data Insight and Social BI practice in December, 2011. Hence, the reference to the holiday season....
View ArticleTreating Your BI Initiative Like an Entrepreneurial Startup
The following article was originally published by TDWI in the May 15, 2012 issue of BI This Week. Startups know that what customers say they want isn’t necessarily what they want. The same principle is...
View ArticleThe BI McTriple: 3 Business Intelligence Lessons from Cheezburger
The following is a guest post written by Michael Koploy, an analyst for Software Advice. This post is a summary of a more in-depth interview that Michael conducted with Loren Bast, Director of Business...
View ArticleAre We Carpenters, Cabinet Makers, or Furniture Makers?
In September, 2012 I had the honor of presenting the keynote address at The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) World Conference in Boston. Here is the abstract and video recording of that presentation....
View ArticleWherescape CEO Michael Whitehead Interview
Check out this TDWI BI This Week interview of Michael Whitehead by Linda Briggs. Michael is a friend of mine and the very astute CEO of Wherescape, a company that produces tools that enable agile data...
View ArticleScaling Agile Data Warehousing
It has been far too long since my last post, and frankly I’ve been up to my ears in alligators in my new role as director of Agile Analytics at ThoughtWorks and haven’t had enough time to write. So,...
View ArticleTen Mistakes to Avoid in Agile BI Transformation
This article was first published by TDWI (The Data Warehousing Institute) in May 2013 as part of its Ten Mistakes series. See the original article here if you are a TDWI member. It’s been said that...
View ArticleTreating Your BI Project Like an Entrepreneurial Startup
Startups know that what customers say they want isn’t necessarily what they want. The same principle is critical to the success of your BI project. As a proponent of agile data warehousing and...
View ArticleDo Less by Committing to More
By Lynn Winterboer and Ken Collier (first published in TDWI BI This Week on July 30, 2013) Agile leaders focus more on the continuous delivery of high-priority value to business stakeholders and less...
View ArticleAgile DW/BI Testing – Just Get Started!
by Ken Collier and Lynn Winterboer This article was first published in TDWI BI This Week on July 9, 2013 When quality and testing is moved up front on a project, everyone enjoys a higher quality...
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