User involvement in any project that will directly affect them is critical and too often overlooked. This limited or complete lack of involvement leads to poor user adoption and almost always project failure.

By Anirudh Menon – Agile business intelligence is a method of implementing business intelligence (BI) tools and initiatives by using the agile methodology commonly adopted in software development.

While adopting agile business intelligence processes, the business intelligence team is often comprised of software developers who understand the agile methodology. Just like any other agile implementation, BI projects are split into a set of small projects that undergo the following on a continuous basis:

• Planning
• Development
• Testing &
• Deployment

Having such a segmented yet iterative approach ensures continuous improvement in the overall project and measurable progress. Organizations can quickly roll out their products to the market, due to agile methodology.

Similar to other business intelligence initiatives, the agile business intelligence model is deployed with an intent to reduce the total cost of operations (TOC). It also enables a significant change in the digital transformation of the organization as it brings about great flexibility and a change in the organizational culture, through the adoption of technology.

Agile Business Intelligence is nothing but the utilization of agile software methodology specifically for Business Intelligence projects.  Software developers prefer this method as it reduces go-to-market time and helps them to cater to the dynamically changing user demands.

It is a recurrent process, where the product undergoes continuous evolution with constant iterations in the user interface, visualizations, reports, dashboards, and new BI features and functionalities that are added over a period of time, depending on market demands. Read On: