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Many organisations are questioning why they are unable to deliver systems with the agility and rapidity that they would like. In response, Agile dovetailed with DevOps, offers organisations the promise of a development agility that will underpin innovations in Products, Services and Operational processes. However, not all stakeholders are quite as enthusiastic about this promise. The idea of insulating the development Teams, so that they can just 'get on with it' and deliver features to 'delight their customers', runs counter to the instincts of many Architects. Even though they share the ambitions of Agile DevOps, they fear that it can become an uncontrolled 'developer charter' resulting in development that undermines co-ordinated and governed delivery. Ultimately, this could cause fragmentation of the Enterprise vision, and possibly a breakdown of system interoperability. This view suggests that Agile DevOps and Enterprise Data Architecture are intrinsically at loggerheads, and that there will always be a trade-off; more control stifling agility, or more agility loosening control. But there is another way. This book takes the reader step by step through an approach to the integration of Agile DevOps and Data Governance that retains control of its data, and yet delivers enhanced development agility.

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The prizes from Agile development mean nothing if, as a result, we lose control of our data. This book is a critical resource, clearly describing the techniques through which we can avoid this pitfall, and instead, deliver the potentially dramatic rewards from both Agile and Data Governance. - Reem Zahran, Operations & IT Director, Kantar Media Just 'doing' Agile doesn't work, what's required is a cultural shift to embrace Agile. What this book explains, is how to make the required Agile cultural shift, yet still remain compliant through effective Data Governance. This is, of course, absolutely essential for so many companies, especially those in Finance. - Rob Webb, General Manager, International Financial Services, Commonwealth Bank

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Dave Knifton started his working life as an Aeronautical Engineer working in Spin Prevention for a Military Aircraft manufacturer. He then retrained to teach Physics in State Schools. After a number of years as Heads of Physics and Computing, he joined the newly formed Oracle UK. A few years later, he transferred to Oracle Australia to set up and run Oracle Education and then worked as a Principal Oracle Consultant for them. Leaving Oracle, he created and managed firstly an IT Consultancy in Sydney, and then three years later, a sister Consultancy in London. Dave has worked with numerous organisations across the globe and started various commercial Web ventures. He has also created two centres of Oracle excellence for clients in the UK and Eire. To fulfil a lifelong ambition, in early 2003, he converted a derelict pub in London into a cafe and managed this, before selling it at the end of the year. Over the years, both for Oracle, its education partners and through dozens of workshops through his own Consultancies, he has delivered education to thousands of students. This has included; Business Analysis, Data Modelling, Relational System Design and Oracle Development. He has authored two companion books to this one in the Data Architecture Fundamentals series: The Data Model Toolkit - ISBN: 978-1782224730 Enterprise Data Architecture - ISBN: 978-1782223269 Currently he works as a Consultant Enterprise Data Architect and lectures for Verhoef Training in the UK.

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