Pretty Agile blog posts about Agile Data Warehousing

Just-in-time Training for an Agile Release Train Quick-Start

Em Campbell-Pretty - February 16, 2017

Updated 6 February 2024 to reflect SAFe 6.0 terminology. The three key ingredients in any ART launch are 1) teams, 2) a well-defined, force-ranked feature-level ART backlog and 3) the knowledge to execute in a lean and agile manner. In Read more...

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SAFe Applied

Tags: Agile Analytics, Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, Analytics Insights Agile Release Train, ART Launch, Culture, High Performance Team, QuickStart, SAFe, SAFe Training, Scaled Agile Framework

Facilitating Squadification for a SAFe Agile Release Train

Em Campbell-Pretty - January 25, 2017

Updated 6 February 2024 to reflect SAFe 6.0 terminology. The squadification day had arrived! We had management buy-in to using self-selection to create teams and a structure for our new Agile Release Train (ART). I turned up with my Time Read more...

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Tribal Unity

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, Agile Teams, Identity, QuickStart, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Scaling Culture, ScrumMastery, Self Selection, Squadification, Team Building

The 6-Day SAFe Quick-Start with Self-Selecting Teams

Em Campbell-Pretty - November 29, 2016

Updated 6 February 2024 to reflect SAFe 6.0 terminologyFor those not familiar with the SAFe, “Quick-Start" (also known as the one-week launch) is a proven pattern for launching an Agile Release Train. A textbook Quick-Start goes something like Read more...

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SAFe Applied

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Transformation, Analytics Insights Agile Release Train, ART Launch, QuickStart, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Self Selection, Spotify, Squadification, Squads, Team Building, Tribal Unity

The Magic Carpet Ride- A Business Perspective on DevOps

Em Campbell-Pretty - January 19, 2016

Having problems convincing your stakeholders to try DevOps? Confused about how DevOps can work at scale? Or even just wondering where to start with DevOps? Don’t worry you aren’t the only one! Imagine being the business owner of an Read more...

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Videos

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, Automated Deployment, CI/CD, DevOps, EDW Release Train, Leading Change, Lean, LKCE15, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Switch

There is no such thing as a Feature Owner... Or is there?

Em Campbell-Pretty - December 15, 2015

When an organisation introduces agile, it is not uncommon for there to be a mass rollout of Agile Fundamentals training, where the role of the Product Owner is positioned as being an empowered business person who is colocated with and 100?dicated Read more...

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SAFe Roles

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, EDW Release Train, Empowerment, Feature Owner, Product Owner, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework

Video: How a Business Executive Led the Implentation of Agile, Lean & CI/CD

Em Campbell-Pretty - April 21, 2015

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Videos

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, Automated Deployment, DevOps, DevOps Enterprise Summit, EDW Release Train, Leadership, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Scrum Haka

Scaling Agile Data Warehousing

Em Campbell-Pretty - February 08, 2014

Two years ago, I found myself with five Agile feature teams developing in parallel on an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) with a single integrated code base. While the introduction of Agile was showing promise, we would need to find a way to make Read more...

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Cutter Articles

Tags: Agile, Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, Communication, Continuous Improvement, EDW Release Train, Leadership, Leading Change, NPS, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Scrum, Visualisation

Switch in Action: Business Change Management Applied to Software Engineering

Em Campbell-Pretty - November 26, 2013

As regular readers of this blog would know, I recently read Chip & Dan Heath's Switch (which I blogged about here). One Saturday evening in July, whilst only a short way though the book, I found myself thinking of the challenges we had rolling out Read more...

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SAFe Applied

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Automated Deployment, Change, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, EDW Release Train, Leading Change

A Perspective on the Scaled Agile Framework

Em Campbell-Pretty - September 01, 2013

I have watched with interest and disappointment over the past month or so as Agile thought leaders have taken to publicly passing judgement on the new kid on the block, the Scaled Agile Framework aka SAFe. In the interests of full disclosure, I am Read more...

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SAFe Applied

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, EDW Release Train, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile

My Agile 2013 Experience - Day 5 of 6

Em Campbell-Pretty - August 23, 2013

Thursday De-Mystifying Kanban: Understanding Its Many Faces Al Shalloway Al provided a very thorough and complete explanation of the various flavours of Kanban. He covered: Kanban as a signal Kanban as a Team Development Read more...

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Conferences

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Teams, Agile Transformation, Agile2013, Change, Culture, Empathy, Identity, Kanban, Leading Change, Lean, Scaling Agile, Scrum, Trust

The Power of Haka

Em Campbell-Pretty - May 27, 2013

According to Wikipedia, the Haka “is a traditional ancestral war cry, dance or challenge... performed by a group, with vigorous movements and stamping of the feet with rhythmically shouted accompaniment.” When I attended Dean Leffingwell’s Read more...

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Tribal Unity

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, Ba, Collaboration, Culture, EDW Release Train, Employee Engagement, High Performance Team, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Culture, Scrum Haka, Team Building

In the beginning...

Em Campbell-Pretty - April 03, 2013

It's been two years since I started my Agile journey in earnest. At the time I was the business sponsor of a significant capital investment being made by Corporate into the delivery of a true enterprise data warehouse. As the business owner of the Read more...

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SAFe Applied

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, EDW Release Train, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework