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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Scrumdamentalists and Crusaders
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 are now turning towards agile approaches, often to compensate for years and years of failing projects. You might suggest that all’s well that ends well . But… With the growing success of agile approaches new patterns …
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, there are some common points that are often discussed and should be considered when beginning a governance initiative. This list isn’t meant to be all encompassing, rather, these are some of the key elements that are needed in order to …
Barbapapa 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 were no longer broadcasted but as it turns out they are still pretty popular. It’s about a number of creatures that can take on any possible shape or form: fat, …
MDM: 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 group. Many western companies are looking to expand into China and are quickly finding that traditional customer mastering processes are struggling within the Asian market in general and China specifically. Here are …
Towards 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 will discuss the evolution of BI in large organizations from an historical perspective. The evolution of BI in large organizations goes back to the 1970s. In an increasingly competitive …
Paving 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 thinking beyond the walls of the IT department, on the expectation that real business people should drive development. For IT people, the empirical Scrum framework with its frequent ‘Inspect & Adapt’ cycles has …
MDM: 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 the mobile channel for customer information. Mobile devices are perfect or managing customer information, they are seen as being owned by the individual which gives an intimacy to the information that a corporate website or …
MDM: 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 best its some information available via the website but rarely is there a clear establisbment process around how a new site is created within the Information infrastructure. The business is clear on what it takes to …
Three 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 we would be able to maintain a certain level of quality. These managers were reviewing the content and decided if something should or should not be listed in the knowledge repository. Knowledge …
Paving 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 technology aspects of software development. Despite the great results, like Agile overtaking waterfall and the gorilla position of Scrum, there is room for improvement. One major improvement lies in better embedding Scrum in organizations, anchoring it, …
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