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Agile Meeting Effectiveness
I recently contributed to a LinkedIn thread on Sprint Reviews in Agile. The Sprint Review is one of the many meetings in Scrum, and it...

Tim Burns
Dec 17, 20232 min read
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Scrum Master Pro-Tip
Cancel as many meetings as you can. Schedule a meeting to set the stakes Use Slack or Teams to resolve blocks on the day of the meeting...

Tim Burns
Dec 14, 20231 min read
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What other blogs am I reading
here are some blogs that caught my interest today. I spend at least 4 hours a month in various company meetings....

Tim Burns
Dec 9, 20231 min read
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Create Actionable Datasets by Combining Sources
Brittney Howard performing Stay High on KEXP Good Data drives actions. A stunning dashboard is good for impressing others, but the real...

Tim Burns
Nov 23, 20231 min read
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Iceland Airwaves Recap and Future Festivals
I saw Briet at Iceland Airwaves and she had a cadre of Icelandic Generation Z "Swifties" singing along to her beautiful songs in...

Tim Burns
Nov 11, 20231 min read
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D&D and Scrum - "Rules as Written"
The Author's setup from his Home Campaign I'm an avid game master (dungeon master). I have run D&D tables at a local gaming shop and a...

Tim Burns
Oct 22, 20233 min read
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Making My Way as a Principle Data Architect at Evolve
On my way to Carter Notch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire I am thrilled to say that I will be starting at Evolve next week as a...

Tim Burns
May 25, 20231 min read
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The Feast Feature Store and Snowflake
The Providence Athenaeum Library A feature is a property of a data product that has been reduced into a form to be used for Machine...

Tim Burns
May 22, 20231 min read
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Machine Learning will change everything
Our world is filled with layers of information - waiting to be comprehended (Author) I have been researching using Machine Learning to...

Tim Burns
May 10, 20232 min read
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Domain Data as a Product
Aspects of Domain Data The components of Domain Data as a Product are as follows [1]. Discoverable Addressable Reliability...

Tim Burns
Apr 25, 20231 min read
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Saturday Words of Wisdom
“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to...

Tim Burns
Apr 22, 20231 min read
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Value, Delivery, Security, Repeatability, and Simplicity
Improving Data Architecture with AWS, Snowflake, and Open Source Tools I'm trying that on as a title for a book I'm writing. One of the...

Tim Burns
Apr 19, 20233 min read
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A Lean Data Pipeline - on Medium
Powerful cloud data platforms like Snowflake and Databricks change our thoughts about normal forms and data warehousing. Photo by David...

Tim Burns
Apr 12, 20231 min read
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A Sad Loss
I am mourning my friend Bob Lee. http://blog.crazybob.org/2006/12/five-things-you-may-not-know-about-me.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Tim Burns
Apr 9, 20231 min read
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Thoughts on Surrogate Keys in Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks
As a database developer, I take surrogate keys for granted. The surrogate key is the backbone of a data architecture. In the Kimball...

Tim Burns
Mar 30, 20232 min read
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Pitching a Book - Public Speaking Samples
I'm pitching a book on Big Data Analytics and Data Engineering, and the proposal worksheet has a field that says, "Author public speaking...

Tim Burns
Mar 29, 20232 min read
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Technical Blogging and the Gospel of Thomas
Today at the First Unitarian Church of Providence, where I am a member, the sermon was on the Gospel of Thomas, one of the Gnostic...

Tim Burns
Mar 19, 20231 min read
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Data Warehousing, the Three-Tier Data Pattern, and Normal Forms (2NF, 3NF)
The Data Warehouse (Lakehouse) So we want to store all our data in a data warehouse to make business decisions based on data. Every data...

Tim Burns
Mar 18, 20232 min read
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Who to Review for Data Warehousing and Lean
I received an email from a company asking me to write training manuals for them, and it got me thinking. If I were to create materials,...

Tim Burns
Mar 12, 20232 min read
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DW Design Planning - Provide the Analysts with Access to Answer Business Questions
I am gradually working through the Kimball Model through various blog postings. Reading the postings in order would make more sense, and...

Tim Burns
Mar 11, 20233 min read
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