After having promoted agile and iterative approaches to software development projects for over a decade, I finally find that, like Bob Dylan says, the times they are a-changing. And for the better. Many small and large organizations and enterprises...
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Data Governance: Checklist for Success
Since my last blog post, I have spent a significant amount of time discussing the key considerations associated with starting a data governance initiative within an organization. Although organizational readiness for governance varies by company,...
Read moreBarbapapa and the diamond in the haystack
Last weekend my daughter suddenly said: “You know what dad? You kind of look like Barbapapa. He is also big, pink and bald”. Well, you have to give her credit for courage or maybe to me for publishing this online. I thought the Barbapapa cartoon...
Read moreMDM: Mastering China
One of the big advantages at working within a global community is the ability to leverage experience from one client and region into another. One group within our MDM community that offers us an entire new set of experiences is our Chinese MDM...
Read moreTowards a new paradigm in BI: evolution or revolution?
This is the second post in a series on the next wave of innovation in BI. Part of this post was published in Information Management on May 3, 2011. In this post we will discuss a new paradigm in Business Intelligence. Before presenting the future, we...
Read morePaving the path of Scrum Adoption: (2) Product People
8 years of playing the game of Scrum. Often injected with eXtreme Programming. A cobblestone path to reflect on. A previous reflection was on the absolute need for upstream adoption to drive and anchor Scrum and Agile in organizations. Next is about...
Read moreMDM: Let mobile customers manage their data
I'm a mobile addict, I actually presented back in 2004 on Mobile Airline information on how airlines could build mobile applications at the MDM (Mobile Data Management) conference. One thing thing that I'm not seeing is companies really leveraging...
Read moreMDM: Are you mastering your social places?
Speaking to several retailers recently I've posed the same question: Do you master the social places alongside your physical sites? Most of the time the answer has been that they aren't really mastering any information about physical locations, at...
Read moreThree components for knowledge management
If you want to manage knowledge, or maybe better phrased, record the current state of knowledge within you organization it is nowadays a rather difficult task. We used to think that by just having a knowledge manager or a group of knowledge managers...
Read morePaving the path of Scrum Adoption: (1) going upstream
8 years of playing the game of Scrum. Often injected with eXtreme Programming. A cobblestone path to reflect on.In general, organizations have primarily used Scrum to add predictability via empirical control to the by nature uncertain IT and...
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