Agile Data Warehousing Project Management: Business Intelligence Systems Using Scrum

Data warehousing involves making sense out of enormous amounts of data, and for most warehousing professionals the notion of "agile data warehousing" sounds risky but compelling. Agile data warehousing techniques yield as much as a 3:1 speed advantage while cutting project costs in half. Agile Data Warehousing Project Management aims to bring this crazy-sounding yet highly effective technique to the masses by providing a thorough introduction to the method as one would practice it in the project room to build a serious "data mart." This step-by-step presentation will bring the novice to the point where they can join or even lead a team in visualizing, building, and validating a single component to an enterprise data warehouse.