Achieve greater success by increasing the agility of analytics lifecycle management Agile by Design offers the insight you need to improve analytic lifecycle management while integrating the right analytics projects into different frameworks within your business. Achieve greater success by increasing the agility of analytics lifecycle management Agile by Design offers the insight you need to improve analytic lifecycle management while integrating the right analytics projects into different frameworks within your business. Preface Chapter 1: Adjusting to a Customer-Centric Landscape It s a Whole New World From Customer-Aware to Customer-Centric Being Customer-Centric, Operationally Efficient, and Analytically Aware Our Example in Motion Enabling Innovation Chapter 2: The Analytic Lifecycle What are Analytics Anyway? Analytics in Your Organization Case Study Example Beyond IT: The Business Analytic Value Chain Analytic Delivery Lifecycle Getting Started Chapter 3: Getting Your Analytic Project Off the Ground A Day in the Life Visioning Facilitating Your Visioning Session Think Like a Customer Chapter 4: Project Justification and Prioritization Organizational Value of Analytics Analytic Demand Management Strategy Results Project Prioritization Criteria Knowledge Acquisition Spikes Chapter 5: Analytics The Agile Way Getting Started Understanding Waterfall The Heart of Agile The Agile Manifesto / Declaration of Interdependence Selecting the Right Methodology Chapter 6: Analytic Planning Hierarchies Analytic Project Example Inputs Into Planning Cycles Release Planning Analytic Release Plan Chapter 7: Our Analytic Scrum Framework Getting Started The Scrum Framework Sprint Planning Sprint Execution Daily Standup How Do We Know When We re Done? Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective Chapter 8: Analytic Scrum Roles and Responsibilities Product Owner Description ScrumMaster Description Analytic Development Team Description Additional Roles Chapter 9: Gathering Analytic User Stories Overview User Stories Tools and Techniques INVEST in Good Stories Epics Chapter 10: Facilitating Your Story Workshop Stakeholder Analysis Managing Stakeholder Influence Agile Versus Traditional Stakeholder Management The Story Workshop Must-Answer Questions Post-Workshop Chapter 11: Collecting Knowledge Through Spikes With Data, Well Begun is Half Done The Data Spike Data Gathering Visualization and Iterations Defining Your Target Variable Chapter 12: Shaping the Product Backlog Creating Your Product Backlog Going DEEP Product Backlog Grooming Defining Ready Managing Flow Chapter 13: The Analytic Sprint: Planning and Execution Committing the Team The Players Sprint Planning Velocity Task Definition The Team s Definition of Done Organizing Work Sprint Zero Sprint Execution Chapter 14: The Analytic Sprint: Review and Retrospective Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective Sprint Planning (Again) Layering in Complexity Chapter 15: Building in Quality and Simplicity Quality Planning Simple Design Coding Standards Refactoring Collective Code Ownership Technical Debt Testing Chapter 16: Collaboration and Communication The Team Space Things to Put in the Information Radiator Analytic Velocity Improving Velocity The Kanban or Task Board Considering an Agile Project Management Tool Chapter 17: Business Implementation Planning Are We Done Yet? Analytic Release Planning Model Review Persona-Based Design Chapter 18: Building Agility into Test-and-Learn Strategies What Is Test-and-Learn? Layering in Complexity Incorporating Test-and-Learn Into Your Model Deployment Strategy Creating a Culture of Experimentation Failing Fast and Frequently Who Owns Testing? Getting Started Chapter 19: Operationalizing Your Model Deployment Strategy Finding the Right Model What is an Operational Model Process? Getting Your Data In Order Determine Model Scoring Frequency Model Performance Monitoring Analytics The Success to Plan For Chapter 20: Analytic Ever After Beginning Your Journey Supporting the Analytic Team The Importance of Agile Analytic Leadership Finding a Pilot Project Scaling Up The End of the Beginning Sources Index