Integral Net Information Systems Limited

Agile focuses on delivering value. Business Intelligence is also about providing means to deliver value. But how value is defined?  Value may be different for internal  organisational units within an organisation, different roles within the same organisational unit,  or even different times. So to deliver value via business intelligence is not a static process. It involves change and this is where Agile BI comes into the picture.

To my opinion first of all Business Intelligence should not be considered as a project. I explain: Business Intelligence is about making sense of organisational data via accessing a well trusted delivery model that suits best for the domain and type of the user with  the supporting underlying infrastructure. Now it is simple: Data changes, people change, processes change, businesses merge or separate, systems merge or separate, teams combine, groups divide, processes streamline to accommodate all these changes, the new data enters the cycle, and some data seizes to be important of of having any value as the result.

This is why Business Intelligence and Management Information is no longer a programme, it is a product group and it is in fact an evolving product group with subgroups for handling many layers that Management Information covers. This is a portfolio of products that requires project or programme management for continuous improvements!

Agile can handle this complexity, because agile concentrates on delivery of  higher value on  repeated short time frames and keep reviewing the product items by adding what is recognised as value for the whole organisation.  In short Agile BI  is  Management of MI Requirements by Reality!