Foreword by Jim Highsmith

I was introduced to Ken Collier through a mutual friend about seven years ago. We started meeting for coffee (a two-person Agile group in Flagstaff, Arizona) every week or so to talk about software development, a sprinkling of Agile here and there, skiing, mountain biking, and Ken’s analytics projects. Early on, as Ken talked about a project that was faltering and I talked about Agile, he decided to try out Agile on his next project. As he quipped, “It couldn’t be worse!”

Over the years I’ve heard every reason imaginable why “Agile won’t work in my company because we are different.” Ken never had that attitude and from the beginning kept trying to figure out not if Agile would work on business intelligence and data warehousing ...

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