In this one-day course you'll discover how the Agile approach, in the context of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence projects (DW/BI), provides a framework for delivering more value from those projects. Participants learn agile concepts and terms, and practice applying them to their own DW/BI projects in class. Topics covered include:

• Why Agile?
• The Agile Manifesto: guiding values and principles
• Agile frameworks: Scrum and Kanban
• Agile projects, programs and portfolios
• Requirements: user stories
• Epics and story slicing
• Intro to Agile testing practices
• Intro to the Agile infrastructure
• Getting started: iteration zero

This class is geared to data professionals who are interested in understanding what "Agile" means. Data warehouse and BI project managers; directors and leaders; business users; architects, designers, developers, and administrators; testers; business intelligence practitioners; business analysts and product owners.

Why Lynn Winterboer?

Lynn Winterboer has a proven background in a variety of data projects and agile practices and teaches and coaches DW/BI teams on how to effectively apply agile principles and practices to their work. Ms. Winterboer understands the unique set of challenges faced by BI/DW teams that want to benefit from the incremental style of Agile development and leverages her experience and training to help deliver practical solutions for her clients and students.