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Learning to hate Agile-at-scale

11 Saturday May 2019

Posted by Martyn Jones in 4th generation Data Warehousing, agile, All Data, Architecture, business, business strategy, Methodology, Process, project management, scrum

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StupidToScaleAfilonius 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 →

A data superhero is something to be

02 Wednesday Mar 2016

Posted by Martyn Jones in 4th generation Data Warehousing, Consider this, Data Supply Framework, Data Warehouse, Data Warehousing, DW 3.0, EDW, Excellence, Good Strat, Good Strategy, Information Management, Information Supply Frameowrk, Knowledge, leadership, Methodology, Professional Networking, The Big Data Contrarians

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SuperHeroA data warehousing superhero is something to be

Not all that glitters is Big Data, and Big Data has a long way to go before it can deliver anything like the same satisfying results, tangible benefits and organisational agility that a properly implemented Inmon Enterprise Data Warehouse can provide.

Therefore, I have a question for you.

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Big Data with BIG SMILES

23 Monday Nov 2015

Posted by Martyn Jones in Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Cambriano, Data Supply Framework, Martyn Jones, Martyn Richard Jones, Methodology, Process, SMILES, Strategy, Uncategorized

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Having got your attention I would like to introduce you to a pragmatic, real-world and business centric approach to Big Data and Big Data Analytics. When I say that this is the best approach to Big Data you are ever likely to find in the whole universe and in your entire life, I am still significantly understating the magnificent utility, timeliness and the here-and-now facets of the approach. Continue reading →

Nothing achievable is impossible: Challenges, Self-worth and Strategies

09 Thursday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Ask Martyn, Best principles, Creativity, Excellence, Methodology

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Behavioural Economics, Business Enablement, Business Management, Information Technology, Strategy

I came into IT at the tail end of the seventies when I joined one of the original computing pioneers.

It was a conservative company lead by veterans, engineers, accountants and sales, with many ties to the US administration, the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies.

My interests at the time were in philosophy, politics and economics. I liked to meet people and talk, and also liked to help people solve real-life business problems, so I was always engaged with the corporate staff and executive management rather than with the real hard-core technicians and engineers.

The thing is, I had no idea what constrained IT, so I never had that baggage when thinking about solutions.

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Don’t fight the Bull, Isolate it – Deliberately avoiding the evident

07 Tuesday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Jones in Banking, Best principles, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Executive, Management, Methodology

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Banking, Behavioural Economics, Big Data, business intelligence, Business Management, Demagogism, Dogma

Much of my consulting work is done in the Financial Industry.

I was there when the crisis was prepared, when it was baked and when it was brought out of the oven.

There are many theories about what went wrong.

Most of them are misleading, misinformed or simply crap.

Mainly to protect the guilty.

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