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Agile Data Warehousing: Delivering World-Class Business Intelligence Systems Using Scrum and XP

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This book brings together a lot of ideas about agile DW that have only been touched on in other books and journals. It is an excellent 'how to' book for anyone interested in introducing agility to the decidedly 'waterfall' world of mainstream BI practices and methods. The book goes beyond being an agile polemic by providing deep thinking and research supporting the practice of agile BI.

I picked this up based on a recommendation from a work colleague and I don't understand why he recommended it. I found this difficult to read due to poor choice of vocabulary and lack of logical message structure. I found too many sections to be about introductory Agile concepts rather than specialised Data Warehouse / BI issues so I ended up spending a lot of time skimming.

Formatting for the Kindle was very poor and many figures are not understandable.

There are also a number of cutesy acronyms based on Ceregenic's specific approach that I just found distracting.

I have a very strong suspicion that the interesting parts of this book could be better communicated as tightly copy-edited articles or blog posts. Nothing really came out to me as particularly insightful but given that I drifted into skimming, I may possibly have missed something buried in the noise.

I found this to be an outstanding, insightful guide for adopting Agile/Scrum methodology to Data Warehouse projects. Mr. Hughes' book takes the reader through the core tenets of Scrum and starting an Agile Data Warehousing team, to practical sure-footed steps and examples in the use of User Stories and story estimation, to DW-specific development task decomposition and estimation, and through the dynamics of the agile-iterative process. The book then delivers great insights around scaling DW-Scrum teams, testing approaches, process improvement and CMMI compliance. It is very well-written, absolutely well worth the read and is a great TEAM reference book for launching Agile/Scrum Data Warehouse development programs/teams (as well as an excellent guide for improving existing Agile DW teams)... Nice job!

I bought this book intending to gain understanding of how you can adapt a relative expensive traditional data warehouse approach to the more money orientated CEO.

Whilst the book doesn't contain everything it sets a very powerful view of the future and to put simply explains succintly how to win the hearts and minds of any senior level stakeholders.

My only issue with the book is that it is full of typos. Words which simply don't make any sense and could have been picked out by a simple spell checker!

A set of useful templates would have been nice but for the price paid I think its a bargain!

If you want happy business users, read this book, and implement the author's methods. Agile projects deliver results to users much earlier in a project. Users regularly see progress every few weeks.

Mr. Hughes covers key aspects of making scrum/XP work for data warehousing and BI projects. Giving very practical clues as to how to break down requirements, architecture, identify components that can be built incrementally, tiered data models, scaling scrum projects, etc. If you want to have a chance at doing agile in the DW/BI world, you need to get this book. At $25, it is so rich in content and real-world, practical tools that it is a steal!

It is mostly a decription of writers projektmodel - very detailed og not very useful for people who is not custemors