Management

What makes a good Agile leader

Consider for a moment, your management style. Dr W. Edwards Deming, put forward two types of mistakes that you, as a manager can make when dealing with "variation" in process and outcomes. Interfering or tampering when everything is normal or within tolerance (common causes), indicative of micromanagement, and a failure to intervene when a process in out of control (special causes), indicative of absenteeism. As an Agile Manager, you need to find the middle ground between these two extremes.

Agile Governance

or what can senior management learn from Agile
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In preparation for a book, this blog post is the first of many on Agile Governance; a topic that I have been researching and developing for a few years. Unlike many of my other blog posts (which are extensions of standard processes), this concept is cutting edge, and I am really looking for as much feedback and comment as possible.

So without further ado;

My Ideal Agile BI team

or who should I hire
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One of the more common questions I get asked is “What is your ideal business intelligence team?”. Though my answer is dependent on specific organisational requirements, there are some commonalities and generalisations I can make.

I would start by saying that a good BI team consists of both technical and business people. By utilising business and technical experts working together, outcomes can generally be met sooner and more accurately than if the teams were separate.

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