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The Four Database Design Principles You Should Be Using
“Obey the principles without being bound by them.” -Bruce Lee Do you have some guiding principles you use when designing a new feature or when implementing a new requirement? I do. And you should too. I put them to paper a few years ago while we were undergoing a hiring binge and I wanted […]
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The Three Best Tips For Effective Code Reviews And Preventing Knife Fights!
Bring a group of senior business intelligence professionals or SQL Server pros together to review each others code and you have all the potential for a good knife fight. As our team is getting ready to make design/code reviews a regular part of our development process we’re looking to make sure we get off on […]
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Business Intelligence Teams Could Learn Something From Barcelona Football
Just came across a brief but interesting article looking at how the top ranked Barcelona Football Club has handled some tricky management issues, one of which is particularly common to the business intelligence team:
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Rebuilding A Business Intelligence Team
On April 29th I took on a new position as the lead of the Business Intelligence Team for a local money management firm. To make the story a bit more interesting, I had worked for the same firm five years earlier as the supervisor of their database group. Since that time the firm’s assets
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When Hiring Your Database Team – Do Not Settle!
One of the unwritten qualifications of a great business intelligence or database team lead are interviewing skills. Finding the right business intelligence pro can often be a slow process that frequently results in upper management demanding you “just pick someone!”. Do not give in! This recent interview with Digg founder and angel investor Kevin Rose […]