GOOD STRATEGY REBELLION

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  • Is Data Warehousing Truly Iterative and Agile?

    Is Data Warehousing Truly Iterative and Agile?

    Data warehousing eschews iterative development?

    Martyn Jones, Santander, 10th October 2024

    Narrator: The development method for data warehousing, whether following Inmon or Kimball, has always been iterative with apparent aspects of self-service, agility, rapid development and end-user development.  

    Dud: We always built data warehouses iteratively, didn’t we, Pete?

    Pete: Yes, that’s right, Dud. Iterations are delivered in increments. Small enough to be quickly deliverable. Large enough to be significant to the business.

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  • Is Data Warehousing Really Outdated?

    Is Data Warehousing Really Outdated?

    Data warehousing is out of date?

    Martyn Jones, Manhattan, 29th September 2024

    Narrator: According to some data-mesh folk, data warehousing is “a data management construct that dates back to the eighties,” I have a problem with that. It’s as if that was somehow a bad thing. Is it? For me, that’s quite a weak argument that, in a way, treats people as if they were idiots.

    It is like someone asking Newton, “So, Sir Isaac, you don’t still believe in that old gravity nonsense, do you?”

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  • The Data Dialogues (Nov 2024) – Talking Book

    The Data Dialogues (Nov 2024) – Talking Book

    Talking Book

    Martyn Richard Jones, A Coruña, Spain.

    Remember

    To set the scene, get to the point, and give this thing the well-deserved impulse, impetus, and notoriety, I will begin like Dylan Thomas in Under Milk Wood—that is, at the beginning.

    And for folk who struggle with big words? That’s the start.

    So, to get things rolling modestly, I will explain where I am coming from with this demanding, triumphant and considered endeavour of mirth, myth and mysticism.

    And, if that fails, we move on. Right? Right!

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