Part I. Setting the Foundation
This part describes fundamental skills and knowledge that everyone on an agile project team should have. Why should you invest your time reading these chapters? Without this common base of knowledge it is very difficult for application developers and data professionals to work together effectively. A significant problem in the IT industry is that most data books do not cover object-oriented development issues and most object books seem to ignore data issues. Furthermore, leading agile books have all but ignored data and enterprise issues until now. I think it's time that we all decide to start investing the time to learn about the wide range of issues that we commonly face on a daily business. Although you may feel that you have a very good understanding of one or more of these topics my advice is to skim the chapters describing your areas of expertise because I suspect I've presented many new insights on these "old topics".
- Chapter 1: The Agile Data Method.
Explores how application developers, database administrators (DBAs), enterprise architects, and data administrators can work together effectively in an agile environment.
- Chapter 2: From Use Cases to Databases — Real-World UML.
Object technology is the norm for modern projects; therefore, it is critical for everyone to understand the basics of object orientation and the Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.x (including UML data modeling).
- Chapter 3: Data Modeling 101.
Data modeling is a fundamental skill ...
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