20 Monday Mar 2023
Martyn Richard Jones
Saintes, 20th March 2023
Narrator: As much as I love the work of some celebrated buffoons, fools and jesters with imagination, there are some areas that they should not be allowed to invade without adequate supervision being in place.
Dud: Pete,why do people talk such complete and utter unsubstantiated poll tax?
Continue reading10 Friday Dec 2021
Martyn Jones
10th December 2021
Martyn Jones is Chief Scientist and Information Architect at Cambriano Energy. For better or worse, he is known as the Big Data Contrarian. He is the author of the widely acclaimed eBook Laughing @ Big Data, available at amazon.com.
Tea with The Data Contrarian is a series of interviews around data and analytics.
Today, Martyn talks with the great Afilonius Rex on contemporary trends, fads, and fancies in data, analytics and more.
Continue reading25 Thursday Nov 2021
I am quite a fan of many aspects that sit under the Data Mesh umbrella. However, when it comes to a proper fact-based understanding and analysis of the history, place and architecture (business, data and technical) of Data Warehousing, the leading exponents of data mesh have it woefully wrong.
Therefore, the purpose of this blog article is to set the record straight.
10 Monday Jun 2019
Martyn Richard Jones
Brussels 10th June 2019
Today I want to talk with you about energising the Agile Way of Working brand.
Sadly, the Agile Way of Working movement seems to be temporarily on the wane. The adoption rate of AWOW has not risen in line with expectations. It’s stuck in the doldrums between Scylla and Charybdis. Which makes for frowns all around.
But, me being me, I didn’t leave it at that. That’s a challenge, right there! Let’s go for it! Let’s turn those frowns upside-down
As result, I searched for a way to help the Agile@Scale crowd out, and I eventually came up with ten amazing pieces of incredible advice on how to easily make ‘Agile Way of Working’ truly something worth having around.
So, here we have it:
There you have it. Ten jolly and sensible policies for a happy world of Agile at Scale and Agile WOWO.
Many thanks for reading,
This is Martyn Jones of goodstrat.com – THE GOOD STRATEGY COMPANY
Until next time.
Contact me at martyn dot jones at goodstrat dot com
02 Sunday Jun 2019
The original article is here: https://goodstrat.com/2019/05/11/deep-learning-and-shallow-understanding/
28 Tuesday May 2019
Martyn Richard Jones
Bruxelles 28th May 2019
To paraphrase the great Bob Hoffman. Just when you thought that if evangelists for Agile were to generate one more ounce of bullshit the entire fucking solar system would explode, what do they do? Exceed expectations.
And how did they do that? Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to Agile at Scale with all the miscellaneous, spiced-up and vainglorious crap-on-the-side that accompanies it.
22 Wednesday May 2019
Posted in agile, agile@scale, Inform, educate and entertain.
11 Saturday May 2019
Afilonius Rex
Cordoba, 12th May 2019
Ladies and gentlemen, the performance is about to start!
In 1998, as Programme, Product and Competence Centre manager at Hewlett-Packard, I signed the Agile Manifesto.
At that time, I had been using elements of the Agile-method mindset for the best part of sixteen years.
Previously, in 1995 I was trained and certified in Iterations, an iterative and agile-like methodology for building, maintaining and expanding data warehouses and data marts. Continue reading
17 Monday Apr 2017
Martyn Richard Jones
Madrid, 16th April 2017
I think Agile has its place, especially in the world of software application development, especially in building the kind of software that businesses frequently use in the peripheral aspects of their day-to-day operations.
Done right, Agile can make the difference between a great success and a painful failure. Done badly, and you might suffer a worse fate than a badly applied Software Development Life Cycle such as Waterfall. Done well, and Agile will oil the wheels of the machine that gets things done.
01 Sunday Jan 2017
Posted in accountability, agile, All Data, Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, dark data, data architecture, Data governance, Data Lake, data management, data science, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, Inform, educate and entertain., pig data, The Amazing Big Data Challenge, The Big Data Contrarians
Big Data Predictions for 2017You want Big Data predictions for 2017?
You’ve got ’em!
These are my Big Data, Data Warehousing and Analytics extrapolations for 2017. They are based on extensive, exhaustive and enigmatic work carried out by top-notch researcher gurus at Cambriano Energy, between December 2015 and December 2016.
So, stick with us as we survey the landscape that will be Big Data in 2017. Continue reading
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