Agile Data Warehousing Project Management

Preface

I risked a lot professionally when, six years ago, I published a small book suggesting IT departments consider agile methods for building data warehouses. Like many radical ideas, this notion generated a strong storm of negative responses—at first. Within a couple of years the general tone of responses decidedly changed toward the positive. Looking back now, I am glad I persisted in popularizing this particular concept because agile data warehousing is an idea whose time has come. It has been extremely rewarding to have been part of its origins, so much so that with great expectations I am pleased to offer another, more extensive book detailing the practice.

As senior solutions architect and project manager in the field of data warehousing ...