Agile Data Warehouse -- The Final Frontier: How a Data Warehouse Redevelopment Is Being Done in an Agile and Pragmatic Way

Although much progress has been made to plan and execute Software Development projects in an agile manner, Data Warehouse or Business Intelligence projects seem to still execute in a more traditional manner. Data Warehouse projects are quite different than Software Development projects and need a set of Agile practices that are distinctly their own. This paper is an account of Data Warehouse redevelopment project at a major Health Benefits provider and a walkthrough of the Agile Data Warehouse practices that were used; both successfully and unsuccessfully. The intent is to share the practices developed and used on the project so they can be evaluated and used by other projects.