1. Agile BI with SQL Server 2012 & TFS 2012
Mohamed Kabiruddin
Microsost BI Consultant, Oakton Consulting
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2. Agenda The Agile Manifesto Traditional BI vs. Agile BI
Agile BI Tools in SQL Server 2012
Team Foundation Server
Demo
Case Studies & Questions

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

4. 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

5. Traditional Approach Jan 2013 Feb 2013 Mar 2013 Apr 2013 May 2013
Data Architecture & Modelling
Business Requirements Definition
Data consolidation & cleansing
BI Reporting Solution Development
Project Initiation, Planning & Resourcing
Infrastructure Design
ETL Development
BI Reporting Solution Design

6. High level estimation and planning
Agile approach to BI
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
Product
Backlog
Iteration
Backlog
High level estimation and planning

7. 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

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

9. SQL Server 2012 BI Stack

10. Long Live the King - SSIS
SSIS Templates – Master Child packages
Simplified ETL Framework – Logging within Catalog
Handy Transformations: PIVOT, UNPIVOT,
SCRIPT COMPONENT
Think about Performance (Avoid asynchronous transformations)
Use Balanced Data Distributor for large data volumes and
data flow bottlenecks (Free download from Microsoft)
Take advantage of Project Deployment model for project-wide parameters
and configurations
Build packages with high re-usability in mind

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

12. Data Modelling / Storage
Image Courtesy: Melissa Coates – SQLChick Blogger

13. Team Foundation Server 2012
Core Capabilities
Process Guidance & Automation
Agile Project Planning
Work Item Tracking
Build Management & Automation
Version Control

14. 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

15. Version Control

16. TFS – Web UI
Burndown Charts
Task Tracking
Team Notices

17. Demo TFS feature set and walkthrough Tabular Modelling walkthrough
Data Analysis with Excel (including GeoFlow)
SSIS 2012 features (optional)

18. 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

19. References
Delivering Data Warehousing and BI Projects using Agile -
Agile BI – Wikipedia -
Agile BI Best Practices -
TFS MSDN -
Dataset used for demo (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Country and Commodity Trade ) -

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