January 2026
One ADI WOW, one Agile Data N' Info and another two awesome Podcast episodes
The Agile Data Big Book of Ways of Working
Combining the best of agile, product and data patterns together to craft a new way of working
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Problem People Diagrams
Simple maps to highlight complex problems
December 2025
One Context Plane, One Blue Book and another awesome Podcast.
November 2025
Mainly the Blue Book, with an awesome Podcast thrown in
Information Factory - Context Plane
One Context Plane to rule the all
Intro - Agile Data Way of Working Blueprints
Iterating patterns from the agile, product and data domains to solve the unique challenges of managing complex data in complex organisations.
DataOps - Information Factory
Automate everything where the longterm value of automation out weighs the short term cost of creating the automation.
Teams - Scaling Team Design
A team of one is the most efficient team to get data work done, but only if that one person is an expert in every step of that data work and has enough time to complete all the work on their own. Unfortunately these people are as rare as unicorn poo and stakeholders and information consumers are getting more and more impatient.
Discover - Prioritisation
Multitasking is the problem, we should focus on one thing at a time Data teams should only work on one thing at a time, but the problem is they often don’t know what the most important thing is. Stakeholders know the business outcomes they need to achieve, but they often believe that multiple outcomes need to be delivered at the same time to be successful. For each of these business outcomes they…
Team - Skills vs Roles
It is a silo problem
Discover - Personas
It is a problem of understanding who we are trying to serve Without understanding who we are developing data or information for, we cannot focus on ensuring we deliver it in the way they need or prefer. The concept of a Persona A persona is a model of a fictional character that represents a user or customer.
Agile - Benefits
The need for benefit statements
Data - Data Domains
Its a problem of boiling the ocean, overlapping boundaries and a lack of a shared language
Discover - Press Release
Amazon Future Press Release
Table of Contents
We suggest you read the chapters in this order, but hey be agile and read the way you want to read. Intro - The Why and the What Intro - The Who Intro - Giants Agile - Mindset Teams - Skills and Roles Requirements - Information Products AgileData Glossary
Discover - Information Product
The concept of a Information Product An Information Product is an approach to describe a boundary for data, analytical and visualisation requirements in a way that the business stakeholders can agree what they will get and the team can understand and deliver it in small iterations.
Agile - Mindset
It’s a problem of what we have been taught, what we have learnt and how we think When my generation went to school we were taught based on a mindset aligned with the industrial revolution. We were taught based on hierarchies, the teachers and principals were at the top, we were at the bottom, we were subservient. We were taught how to do a task, told what to do and how to act, if we didn't follow…
Intro - Giants
Invention > Innovation > Implementation
Intro - The Who
About Me
Intro - The Why and the What
The Why