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Category Archives: Dogma

STRAIGHT TALK: Agile at Scale is Bullshit by Design – The Guardian

24 Tuesday Feb 2026

Posted by Martyn Jones in agile, agile@scale, All Data, Architecture, Assets, awareness, behaviour, business strategy, Creativity, Dogma, IT strategy, Strategy, structured intellectual capital, Value

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Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Madrid, Wednesday 25th February 2026.

Seven years on, the verdict is in, and it’s not flattering. Back in 2019, in a Brussels-fuelled rant channelling the incomparable Bob Hoffman, I declared Agile at Scale the next frontier of IT bullshit: immature, ill-conceived, supercilious, and emphatically not agile. It killed communication with jargon, turned criticism into heresy, and mangled history by ignoring what actually worked. I called it a cultish Frankenstein of Scientology zeal, Vatican pomp, and authoritarian quirks – all wrapped in vainglorious slide decks.

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CEO BRIEFING: Agile at Scale is Bullshit by Design – Remastered and Revisited – 2026/01/27

07 Saturday Feb 2026

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Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Bruxelles, 28th May 2019

To begin at the beginning

To paraphrase the great Bob Hoffman. Just when you feared that Agile evangelists might produce even more nonsense, they surprise you. What do they do? Exceed expectations.

And how did they do that? Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to Agile at Scale. It comes with all the miscellaneous, spiced-up, and vainglorious crap-on-the-side that accompanies it.

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STRAIGHT TALK: Agile at Scale is Bullshit by Design

28 Tuesday May 2019

Posted by Martyn Jones in agile, agile@scale, All Data, Architecture, Assets, awareness, behaviour, business strategy, Creativity, Dogma, IT strategy, Strategy, structured intellectual capital, Value

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Bruxelles 28th May 2019

To begin at the beginning

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.

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In the Beginning was the Big Data Plan

23 Tuesday Feb 2016

Posted by Martyn Jones in Big Data, Big Data 7s, Big Data Analytics, Data governance, Data Lake, data science, Data Warehouse, Dogma, DW 3.0, Inform, educate and entertain., Information Management, Information Supply Frameowrk, Infotrends, Inmon, sentiment analysis

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In the beginning was the Big Iron, the Big Data, and the Big Data Plan.

And then came the Big Data Assumptions.

And the Big Data Assumptions were without form.

And the Big Data Plan was without substance.

And the Big Iron was without movement.

And the Big Data was without velocity, variety and volume.

And darkness was upon the face of the data workers.

And they spoke amongst themselves, saying: “Big Data, is a crock of shit, and it stinketh mucho”.

And the data workers went unto their Data Supervisors and said: “This here Big Data is a pile of putrid crappy keech”, for they were from Govan, and continued, “and none may abide the odour thereof”.

And the Data Supervisors went unto their Information Managers, saying: “Big Data is a container of excrement, and it is very strong, such that none may abide by it.”

And the Information Managers went unto their Business Directors, saying: “This here Big Data doodoo is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide its strength.”

And the Business Directors spoke amongst themselves, saying to one another: “Big Data contains that which aids plant growth, and it is very powerful.”

And the Vice Presidents went unto the President, saying unto him: “This new Big Data will actively promote the growth and vigour of the company, with powerful effects.”

And the President looked upon the Big Iron, the Big Data and the Big Data Plan, and saw that they were good.

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Understanding the Subprime Crisis: Lessons Learned – 2026 Remix

01 Monday Dec 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in awareness, Banking, Consider this, disinformation, Dogma, Stories

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Consider this: Financial Crisis and Subprime.

Martyn Jones

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This is a republication of a piece written in 2009 on the subject of the Financial Crisis and Subprime loans. As the spectre of overreach and unhedged risks raises its ugly head once again, the temptation to republish this piece was just too much to resist. Continue reading →

Silly Season! Data Warehousing is Hadoop is Big Data? – Unplugged for 2026

12 Sunday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Architecture, Ask Martyn, Banking, Best principles, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Creativity, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Knowledge, Peeves

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Banking, Behavioural Economics, Big Data, Bill Inmon, business intelligence, data integration, Data Marts, Demagogism, Dogma, enterprise data warehousing, hadoop, Information and Technology, information management

Martyn Richard Jones

2026 Remaster

Let’s get this baby off the ground

This weekend I read a piece on the Information Management website by Steve Miller with the title of Big Data vs. the Data Warehouse. It’s an old piece, from March 2014.

It was in response to a piece by Bill Inmon titled “Big Data or Data Warehouse?” Turbocharge Your Porsche – Buy an Elephant, in which he singled out for criticism the ad campaign of a big-data and Hadoop promoter.

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Understanding Data Warehousing Misconceptions – Remaster 2026

08 Wednesday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Peeves

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Martyn Richard Jones

2026 Remaster

The problem with Data Warehousing is that at a superficially high level, it is very easy to explain, and it’s quite impressive that this superficially high level is all that a lot of people need in order to do data warehousing their own way.

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Mugged in Data Hell – Summary – На Бо́га наде́йся, а сам не плоша́й

07 Tuesday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Architecture, Best principles, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Knowledge, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Peeves, Risk, Strategy

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Behavioural Economics, Business Enablement, business intelligence, Business Management, business strategy, Challenges, Data Warehouse, Demagogism, Dogma, Financial, IT Strategy, Offshoring, Organisational Autism, Outsourcing, Requirements management, Risk

Martyn Richard Jones

I wrote a piece titled “Mugged in Data Hell.”

INTRO

It told the story of a CIO who was hoodwinked, cajoled, bullied, bribed and patronised into doing the wrong things, continuously.

As my mate Bill said, “It packs big punches, and doesn’t hold back with the shit-kicking truth”.

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Creativity and Corporate IT: Plumbers not Artists – Remaster 2026

06 Monday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Architecture, Best principles, Creativity, Data Warehouse, Dogma, Excellence, Management, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Strategy

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Martyn Richard Jones

Remastered for 2026

Like many people around the world, I have certain expectations.

When I want some artwork done for a sales campaign, yes, I expect the people that I commission to show a lot of creativity.

When I want to read a novel, go to the theatre or simply chill out watching a movie, yes, I do expect some degree of creativity.

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Creativity – Three Stories – Remastered for 2026

05 Sunday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Best principles, Creativity, Dogma, Knowledge, Management

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Martyn Richard Jones

Remastered for 2026

Here are three stories that illustrate the connection between creativity and what we do in business. Jack’s Retail Story talks about the expansion of retail business; Jill’s Colour Book Story highlights a hugely pervasive tendency, even in these times; and Martyn’s Summer Story argues that there is a strategic time and place for some things.

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