Successful Business Intelligence, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

Chapter 10Agile Development

The role of agile development in BI success is one of those secrets that emerged only from a study of common themes in the successful BI case studies. When the first edition of this book was published in 2007, few companies were using agile software development, and even fewer were using it in BI. Since then, agile for BI is more widely accepted, and, advocating it as a best practice, The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) now focuses a number of conferences on agile. Despite broader awareness of agile development, awareness of it is not required for newly certified project management professionals.¹ Instead, certification in agile development techniques are more often provided separately by organizations who offer ...