Timo Elliott

DECEMBER 11, 2018

These are some quick answers to some common questions I get about Business Intelligence, Big Data, and Analytics: Big Data. The term has been around for quite some time. Why is it still important for innovative businesses? It’s clear that data is one of the most important assets of the future. Organizations want to optimize their end-to-end customer experience, to improve productivity, and to engage the workforce in new ways. All of these things require data and analytics.

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Leading Agile

JULY 11, 2018

As a consultant, I get to see a lot of different organizations and work with a variety of teams. By now, virtually everyone has at least heard of agile and read the manifesto. We also seem to have, in technology adoption terms, crossed the chasm, and so adoption by more traditional, sometimes slower moving, global scale organizations is well under way. Agile has finally been vetted by the early adopters and is now becoming mainstream.

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ElegantJ BI

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In this article, we will discuss the Decision Tree analysis method. What is Decision Tree Analysis? There are two basic types of decision tree analysis: Classification and Regression.

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BI Insight

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In real world SSAS Tabular projects, you need to run many different testing scenarios to prove your customer that the data in Tabular model is correct. If you are running a Tabular Model on top of a proper data warehouse then your life would be a bit easier than when you build your semantic model … Continue reading Automate Testing SSAS Tabular Models. The post Automate Testing SSAS Tabular Models appeared first on BI Insight.

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Tim Mitchell

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Earlier this week, I blogged about the automatic cleanup process that purges old data from the SSIS catalog logging tables. This nightly process removes data for operations that are older than 365 days. While this is useful, many SSIS admins have complained that this process is very slow and contentious on large or busy SSISDB databases. In this post, I’ll. The post A Better Way to Clean Up the SSIS Catalog Database appeared first on Tim Mitchell. SSIS Catalog SSIS

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280 Group

JANUARY 30, 2018

This is the first article in a three part series on navigating the Problem vs. Solution Space with a focus on understanding customer needs. Understanding Customer Needs “Well, we could…” I stopped myself quickly. I had fallen into the most common of traps. I had stopped paying attention to the customers’ needs and started working on a fix. Product Managers and the teams of developers they work with often tell me that Product Managers have problems writing good requirements. continue reading].

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

Business Strategy vs. Product Strategy. A business strategy describes how a company wants to achieve its overall aspiration and create value for its users, employees, and shareholders. It’s distinct from the product strategy : The business strategy states how the company will be successful, whereas the product strategy describes how a product will achieve success, as the following picture illustrates.

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Growing Agile

MAY 27, 2018

We all know the benefits of teams. A bunch of people who work together over long periods of time and are fairly stable. They grow together and learn together and the team is worth more than the sum of the individuals. IF you’ve worked in one of these teams – you will know what I’m speaking about. It feels amazing. However in most companies this idea of stable teams seems like an impossibility.

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Simplilearn

JULY 3, 2018

Many organizations assume they need to hire new talent to fill their skills gaps, but that’s an expensive and time-consuming procedure. Determining the skills needed and how to train your existing employees on those skills is a cost-effective and efficient alternative

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In this session, Howard Dresner will examine the latest end-user trends surrounding the business intelligence and analytics market, cutting through the hype to focus on what's really happening and why it matters. This interactive session will cover BI drivers, targets, and success factors, as well as the increasing importance of data leadership.

Business Intelligence

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Many people draw distinctions between people who do management-kind of work and people who do “individual contributor” kind of work. I’ve been asking if they mean individual work or team member work. Sometimes, they do mean individual work. More often, they mean team member. Our culture shapes our language. And, our language shapes our culture.) When we recognize and reward people for individual work, the more often we will call them individual contributors.

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Timo Elliott

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Am I the only one who does this? Algorithmically, social media is designed to be rage-inducing — deliberately, cynically — in order to get more clicks and show you more ads. And it’s ripping apart society. Cartoons Cartoon Humor Social Media socmed

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Leading Agile

JULY 6, 2018

Where were we? Part 1 : Command-line utilities and wrapper scripts. Part 2 : Guard (with Ruby) and SBT (with Scala). Part 3 (this): Infinitest (with Java and IntelliJ IDEA). In Part 1, we looked at some simple continuous checking solutions based on shell commands and wrapper scripts. In Part 2, we climbed up the pile of tools a bit and tried out guard (Ruby) and sbt (Scala). Now we’ll have a look at Infinitest for Java, with JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA.

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ElegantJ BI

JANUARY 16, 2018

Use BI for Social Media and Internet Marketing to Understand and Measure Results! Nearly every organization is using social media to promote its products and services and to establish and sustain relationships with prospects and customers.

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BI Insight

JUNE 28, 2018

From now on I will post some quick tips to help you accelerate your Power BI Desktop development. As the first post of these series, I explain a simple way for hiding multiple columns in Power BI Desktop. To do so: Navigate to Relationships veiew in Power BI Desktop Maximise the table you want to … Continue reading Quick Tips: Hiding Multiple Columns in Power BI Desktop. The post Quick Tips: Hiding Multiple Columns in Power BI Desktop appeared first on BI Insight.

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Tim Mitchell

DECEMBER 17, 2018

When doing any new development or major overhaul of existing SSIS architecture, I almost always recommend to clients that they deploy those packages to the SSIS catalog. Using the catalog to store and execute SSIS packages takes a lot of the manual work out of development and maintenance, particularly when it comes to package logging. When you execute a package. The post SSIS Catalog Execution Parameter Values appeared first on Tim Mitchell. SSIS Catalog SSIS

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Userzoom

APRIL 9, 2018

Under the broad umbrella of human-centred design, user experience design (UXD) and instruction design (ID) are two titans with surprisingly little awareness of each other. Whereas UX designers might work on highly varied types of products — like ecommerce, marketing, healthcare or countless others — instructional designers specifically create education and training materials for things like software, websites, videos, intelligent tutoring systems, games and other instruction-based technology.

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280 Group

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Refocusing the Lens. Yet another call from an IT team asking if we can help them transition from a project-focused view to a product-focused view of their work. I’d love to meet the person who started going across the world letting their IT professionals in on the biggest secret to getting amazing business support products out the door. OK, well, besides transitioning to Agile for product management.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Why Technical Debt Matters for Product People. As the person in charge of the product, you may not be terribly concerned about how clean and well-structured the code is. But the quality of your product matters: It directly impacts your ability to achieve strategic product goals and make your products successful: Technical debt makes it hard to experiment with new ideas, release new features, and quickly respond to user feedback. [1].

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Growing Agile

JULY 18, 2018

Here I was, full time scrum mastering! There was time to plan mindful retrospectives targeted on what the team needed, it was total bliss. I’d been learning so much and this was an obvious way to put my learnings into practice and experiment with some new things. . Here’s a couple of case studies of retrospectives I facilitated and why I targeted them the way I did. —– How to say no: I was reading and learning about team impediments.

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Simplilearn

JANUARY 9, 2018

In this age of digital transformation, there is a need for businesses to become more data driven. Data is everywhere, and businesses that can harness this data to provide maximum value to their customers will win in the marketplace.

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The Analyst Agency

JUNE 22, 2018

Importance of Market Research By Steven Czyrny Market research is vital not only in the initial stages of setting up a business but also throughout the lifespan of your organisation. How can you beat the competition if you don’t know what your clients are looking for? How can you improve your business without knowing where […]. The post The Importance of Market Research appeared first on The Analyst Agency.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I've been working with several managers at organizations large and small, who want to capitalize their software “earlier.” ” These managers have some strongly-held beliefs about the people: People are resources. Resources can multitask on several projects at a time. If “headquarters” does the difficult work, you can move the “grunt” work to lower wage areas and you will save money on the project. None of those beliefs are true.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This one is for software developers. One of the basic ideas of agile software development is that the requesters of software have the primary responsibility to understand customer value and to explain “the What” to the people who build solutions; while the makers have the responsibility to determine “the How” when they build solutions. Yet, a chronic problem throughout the industry is that the makers allow the requesters to dictate “the How.”

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ElegantJ BI

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Data Visualization Tools that are Smarter Can Make Users Smarter!

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Data Visualization Visualization User Experience Business Intelligence 130

BI Insight

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

There are several scenarios to use Unicode characters in Power BI including but not limited to: Creating simple KPI columns in Table or Matrix visuals To show the status of a measure more visually like using starts Using Unicode characters as icons in your reports representing the subject Chris Webb explained some of the above … Continue reading Using Unicode Characters in Power BI. The post Using Unicode Characters in Power BI appeared first on BI Insight.

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