Scott Ambler helps people and teams adopt new ways of working (WoW) and evolve their ways of thinking (WoT), particularly around data warehousing and data quality. He is the creator of the Agile Modeling (AM) (AgileModeling.com) method and Agile Data (AD) (AgileData.org) methods. With Mark Lines, he co-created PMI’s Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit. As a conference keynote speaker, he speaks about continuous data warehousing (DW)/business intelligence (BI), how to address enterprise data debt, how to succeed at corporate AI, and agile architecture. He has also (co-)authored several books, including Choose Your WoW!, An Executive’s Guide to Disciplined Agile, Refactoring Databases, and Agile Modeling. For a full list of his books, visit Scottambler.com/my-books/.

Topics of Discussion:

[4:29] Scott talks about his career journey.

[6:53] Scott’s early involvement in Agile.

[8:34] Needing to up our game in the Agile space.

[8:55] Agile2025 Conference this summer in Denver, CO.

[11:20] Challenges and evolution within the Agile community.

[20:01] Are we going to have a new Agile gold rush?

[21:47] Keeping an eye out for inappropriate processes.

[25:38] How we can do better.

[28:17] The Agile Manifesto.

[35:03] Importance of database refactoring and continuous data operations.

[36:46] What best practices does Scott recommend?

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