Why don’t we hear as much in the BI space when it comes to Agile? This is probably attributed to the ad-hoc nature of BI projects and fluid nature of End Goals. We over the last few years tried to change this perception and leverage the goodness and effectiveness of being Agile in the BI space. BI is so vast that there are different areas where you can bring in the principles and process of Agile. We are incorporating XP, Scrum and Kanban principles to transform the way we do development and support our businesses. We were also successful in incorporating CI within the BI area using tools such as Jenkins, Stash and Git.

1. Is BI/Analytics and Agile an
Oxymoron?

2. Orbitz Worldwide
❖ Started in 2001
❖ Bangalore office in
2013
❖ Analytics , Data
Infrastructure,
Product
development.

3. Expedia DOT com….
❖ 150 branded travel sites.
❖ Presence in more than 70
countries
❖ Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai
and Gurgaon
Fun Facts
❖ How many room nights in a
year?
❖ How many tickets in a year?

4. Who am I?
❖ Tech @orbitz/@expedia
❖ Agile champion
❖ Data strategist
❖ Analytics evangelist
❖ Coder by passion
❖ http://kashyaps.com

5. @Anu
Figuring
Out….
and you will
soon know
why !!!

6. Courtesy - www.google.com

7. Traditional BI, NOT so great!
❖ Time to Market.
❖ Realtime
Analytics is critical
❖ Proprietary
softwares v/s
open source
Courtesy - www.passionned.com

8. Agile to the rescue!
❖ Scrum & XP -
2006
❖ BI and Agile -
2010
Courtesy - www.flickr.com

9. Scrum or Kanban or both?
❖ Where did
SCRUM make
sense?
❖ Where did we
leverage
Kanban? Courtesy - comunidad.iebschool.com

10. CI, CD the course changer
❖ Disruptive BI
❖ Continous Integration
❖ Automated
deployments/
Continuous delivery
❖ Automated QE
framework
❖ Cloud
❖ Realtime Analytics
Courtesy - www.linkedin.com

12. Live-in relationship - BI and Agile
Courtesy - www.google.com
Courtesy - www.anydatasolutions.com

13. One Size fits all ?
Time Bound, Lengthy, Strong User Mindset, GettingBreakdown Components, Team Composition,
BI
Platform
Migration

14. One Size fits all ?
New Venture, Uncertain Requirements, Trial andData Analysis, Wireframes, Early Feedback,
UGC
(Hotel
Reviews)

15. One Size fits all ?
Moving Goal Post, Technology Challenges, Feature
Semantic
Layer

16. One Size fits all ?
And, there are always Ad-hoc Requests, P1, Bugs,

17. Cheatsheet!
SCRUM KANBAN
Short Iterations Continuous Delivery
Concrete Deliverables. Consistent Randomisation
Self Managed team Cross Functional Team
Optimize Iterations Optimize Lead Time

18. Consistent Feedback

19. What worked for us!
• Migration Projects
• Product Roadmap Driven SCRUM
• Data Platform
KANBAN• Self Service
• Ad-Hocs/Integration

20. Key Takeaways
❖ Agile is a
mindset.
❖ CI and CD is
very critical
❖ Test and Learn Courtesy - executivespeakersbureau.com

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Thank you!
Raghu Kashyap -
@ragskashyap
Anu Balasubramanya -
@anu_ub
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