Delegated stakeholders Stakeholders are busy people and they may try and delegate their attendance...
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Self Organising Team Prioritisation
In an AgileData Way of Working the AgileData team are responsible and accountable to prioritise...
Concept of a Persona
The concept of a Persona A persona is a model of a fictional character that represents a user or...
Information Products relationship to data and code
One of the questions about Information Products I get asked a lot, is what is the relationship between an Information Product and the data or the code it relies on? DORO — Define Once, Reuse Often When we start working...
Information Product Anti-Patterns
An anti-pattern is a common response to a problem that looks like a great idea but usually ends up making things worse. An anti-pattern doesn't mean it will also fail, but it does mean it is higher risk and so you...
Information Product FAQ
Does an Information Product have to be delivered in a single iteration? No. If you are using a time box pattern for your iterations, aka a Scrum centric approach, I have found that three week time-boxed iterations seem...
The dangers of a Big Guess Up Front (BGUF)
The way we used to deliver data and analytics work was to do what we call the “big guess up front” (BGUF). Documents for Africa We would create massive data and analytics strategy documents, which took months to create...
Who should attend Steering Committees?
Be don't Do If you are operating under a construct that has a Steering Committee, you are probably not operating as an agile organisation. If you are not an agile organisation your data team will struggle to “be” agile...
Three Agile Testing Methods – TDD, ATDD and BDD
In the word of agile, there are three common testing techniques that can be used to improve our testing practices and to assist with enabling automated testing. Test Driven Development (TDD) Acceptance Test Driven...
Agile Data Gathering Requirements
The Data Requirements Gap There are two typical challenges when we gather data requirements. First, we need to capture and document the requirements in a way the person providing them understands, so they can review...