How Agile and Big Data go together?

    Sometimes it takes time for a new concept to be part of our professional life (eg Agile), sometimes a new one conquers us faster (eg Big Data). The main reason for this is the change involved in adoption: the first one requires all of us to change our mind-sets and behavior, whilst the second one is mostly based on a new technology.

    What about a pair of these, Agile Big Data? Well, this concept is even newer, actually one of the newest trends of this year, 2015.  Basically, it is about using Agile principles in running the Analytics projects.

Here are a few characteristics of working with Big Data in an Agile manner:

• data must be handled in a continuous, real time stream;
• the platform which handles Big Data must be capable of dynamically constructing and maintaining any number of agile view of the data;
• the infrastructure must be fully scalable and reliable in terms of stream processing and dynamic views;
• the data platform must support event processing.

    While having these platforms, we can apply all the Agile core values and principles, so running analytics projects in Agile.

    For more details on Agile Big Data, please read these articles:

• 2015: The Year Big Data Becomes Agile?
• Agile View of Big Data