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Agile Methodology

A software development methodology that iteratively discovers business requirements using small self-organizing, cross-functional teams with business representation. In contrast with traditional waterfall development practices, agile teams build fully functional and tested code in short sprints.

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Agile methods, such as Scrum and Kanban, elicit requirements from stakeholders in an iterative manner. A requirement could be the integration of a new data source in an ETL process or the addition of a new field to a database table.
- Wayne Eckerson in DataOps: Industrializing Data and Analytics June 30, 2018
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Each agile team consists of a data architect, a data engineer, a report developer, and a business representative (i.e., product manager), who are cross-trained in each other’s skills (except the business person). The team consolidates and prioritizes requests building end-to-end solutions for their client in an incremental fashion. Says Akhter, ‘This approach has improved customer satisfaction. There is greater communication and transparency, and the teams have delivered a series of quick wins.
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