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

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

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

11. SQL SERVER 2014
BI Stack

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

13. Analysis Services

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

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

16. 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

17. Version Control

18. TFS Web UI
Burndown Charts
Task Tracking
Team Notices

19. DEMO

20. BDD for SSIS

21. 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

22. References
Delivering Data Warehousing and BI Projects using Agile -
Agile BI – Wikipedia -
Agile BI Best Practices -
TFS MSDN -
SSISMSBUILD -

23. Questions?
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