Agile BI with SQL Server 2014 & TFS 2013 Mohamed Kabiruddin SQL Saturday #296, Melbourne 5th April 2014

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AGENDA The Agile Manifesto Traditional BI vs. Agile BI Agile BI Tools in SQL Server 2014 Team Foundation Server Demo Questions

The Agile Manifesto – Top Picks Sustainable development Business and IT co-ordination Motivated and trustworthy individuals People Customer satisfaction – continuous delivery Changing requirements – early or late Frequent delivery – shorter timescale Process Face-to-face conversations Attention to technical excellence & good design Learn and reflect from every iteration Other

Kimball & Agile BI They seem to naturally fit with the front-end business intelligence layer Designing and developing the analytic reports involves unpredictable, rapidly changing requirements The developers often have strong business acumen and curiosity, allowing them to communicate effectively with the business users It’s reasonable to deliver functionality in a matter of weeks Margy Ross, President The Kimball Group

Traditional Approach Jan 2014 Feb 2014 Mar 2014 Apr 2014 May 2014 Project Initiation, Planning & Resourcing Business Requirements Definition Data Architecture & Modelling Infrastructure Design BI Reporting Solution Design Data consolidation & cleansing ETL Development BI Reporting Solution Development

High level estimation and planning Agile approach to BI High level estimation and planning Product Backlog Iteration Deploy - Self Service BI reports, dashboards Feedback (for next iteration) Incorporate the model into Enterprise DW Business Requirements for the Iteration Build - Prototype BI Model, In-Memory Data Model

You are doing Agile BI if… Project and solution design is incrementally driven by data source loads Data access is provided to business users immediately for decision making Incrementally adding new measures and new reports as and when the business requires

‘BI’-Fold Process Agile Project Methodologies Product Backlog – Tasks / Activities Self Service BI Ad-hoc Reporting

SQL SERVER 2014 BI Stack

Visualisation Tools Excel SharePoint Power Pivot Power View Performance Point Dashboards SSRS Excel SharePoint

Analysis Services

SSDT for SQL Server 2014 Excerpt from Matt Masson’s blog

Team Foundation Server 2013 Process Guidance & Automation Agile Project Planning Work Item Tracking Build Management & Automation Version Control

TFS – On Premise Vs. Cloud Service Federated Identity Management Team Foundation Server SCM and Version Control Team Foundation Service Agile Planning & Collaboration Tools Feedback Requests & Issue Tracking Continuous Integration Builds Lab Management Detailed Reporting & Analytics On-Premises Server Integration

Version Control

TFS Web UI Burndown Charts Task Tracking Team Notices

DEMO

BDD for SSIS

Agile BI is an approach that combines processes, methodologies, tools and technologies, while incorporating organizational structure, in order to help strategic, tactical and operational decision-makers be more flexible and more responsive to ever-changing business and regulatory requirements -Forrester Research

References Delivering Data Warehousing and BI Projects using Agile - http://smartdatacollective.com/bharden/33590/delivering-data-warehousing-and-bi-projects-using-agile Agile BI – Wikipedia -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_Business_Intelligence Agile BI Best Practices - http://www.agiledata.org TFS MSDN - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ff637362.aspx SSISMSBUILD - http://sqlsrvintegrationsrv.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#main/SSISMSBuild/

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