15 articles in this selection

2010/11/07

2010/02/09

The hype and dogma of Agile evangelists has left in its wake a trail of broken projects, ruined businesses and misguided neophytes bleating the tired doctrines of their long departed prophets. The games industry was no exception, with many swept up in the phantasmagoria from which we are only now beginning to witness the debris....

2009/12/29

Agile principles and Lean principles have much in common - to the point where sometimes the terms are used interchangeably. A methodology purest however would argue that they are different - so let's accept that for the moment and consider if one approach is better than the other....

2009/11/10

Method for an Integrated Knowledge Environment (MIKE2.0) is an open source delivery framework for Enterprise Information Management. It provides a comprehensive methodology (705 significant articles so far) that can be applied across a number of different projects within the Information Management space. While initially focused around structured data, the goal of MIKE2.0 is to provide a comprehensive methodology for any type of Information Development....

2009/08/30

A colleague of mine recently told me that he is working for a consulting firm on an information quality (IQ) project with a client where they were just "playing with data quality", not really doing it. As he shared some details, we both agreed it was a sad state of affairs. This article explains what is required to really do information quality and describes a methodology for how to do it....

2009/08/07

An extension ADAPT (Application Design for Analytical Processing Technologies) to facilitate the modeling of temporal aspects.

2009/08/02

ADAPT (Application Design for Analytical Processing Technologies) is the first design methodology specifically created to represent the objects and operations found in OLAP databases. ADAPT Visio template available.

2009/07/17

Quite some organizations still run projects in a traditional, non-iterative, non-agile way, without having roles with clear responsibilities, and defining large tasks with only few details. For these organizations it's quite hard to fully adapt Scrum, and thus it should be introduced carefully. Downside to this is, not all key-principles can be followed from the start. But does this mean that it doesn't deliver any benefits? Not at all!...

2009/07/03

In the lean startup workshops, we've spent a lot of time discussing the technique of Five Whys. It allows teams to diagnose sources of waste in their development process and continuously improve, reversing the usual trend of teams getting slower over time. With Five Whys, teams can accelerate, even as they scale....

2009/07/01

2009/06/30

This article summarizes 'best practices' for the development of a data warehouse (DW) or business intelligence (BI) solution. These best practices describe ways to reduce overall risk on your project while increasing the probability that you will deliver a DW or BI solution which meets the actual needs of its end users. Successful DW/BI projects take an evolutionary approach to development, and better yet an agile one. The principles, practices and philosophies of the Agile Modeling (AM) and Agile Data (AD) methods are applied throughout....

2008/11/14

With so much emphasis on the effectiveness of BPM tools for improving productivity, streamlining the value chain and gaining competitive edge, it’s easy to get caught up in all the hype and end up with a much more sophisticated and expensive solution than the business really needs....

2008/01/24

A standard Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) will provide businesses with the capability of understanding their internal business procedures in a graphical notation and will give organizations the ability to communicate these procedures in a stand...

2008/01/24

2008/01/08

A data warehouse is developed using a data warehousing process (DWP) methodology. Currently, there are a large number of methodologies available in the data warehousing market. The reason for this is the lack of any centralized attempts at creating platfo...