Agile, Automated, Aware: How to Model for Success
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Embarcadero Technologies' ER/Studio offers agile change management features that support user stories, granular check-out/check-in, and integration with naming standards and business glossaries. While 73% of companies utilize agile methodologies, only 34% fully include data modelers in the process, indicating a gap in stakeholder involvement. The platform also provides automation and collaboration capabilities aimed at enhancing the data modeling experience within agile frameworks.
Agile, Automated, Aware: How to Model for Success
- 1. EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIESEMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES Agile, Automated and Aware How to Model for Success Ron Huizenga Senior Product Manger – ER/Studio
- 3. EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES ER/Studio: Agile Change Management • Enable “Agile Data Modeler” • Change Management Center – User stories /tasks • Granular repository check-out & check-in – Individual objects or sets of objects – Full models/sub-models if desired • Change records at check in (or check out) – Can be associated to user stories, tasks • Still fully supports named releases, branch & merge as well 3
- 4. EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES ER/Studio: Change Management Center 4
- 5. EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES ER/Studio: Change Record Details 5
- 6. EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES Is the team responsible for data models included in your agile process? Data team’s inclusion in agile process incomplete Yes, completely 34% Somewhat 58% No 8% Does your organization follow an agile development methodology? Yes, fully 16% Yes, somewhat 57% No 27% 6
- 7. EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES ER/Studio: Automation • Reverse engineering • Metadata interchange • Naming standards • Compare & merge • Forward Engineering • Macros • Glossary Integration 7
- 8. EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES ER/Studio: Apply Naming Standards • Can invoke with other wizards – General Physical Model – Compare & Merge – XML Schema Generation – Model Validation • Can apply to model or sub-model at any time • Either Direction • Selective review/apply • Enabled by loose model coupling • Name lockdown (freeze names) 8
- 9. EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES ER/Studio: Automatic Naming Standards 9 Real-time update while typing
- 10. EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES 10 ER/Studio: Compare and Merge
- 11. EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES ER/Studio: Native Big Data Support • MongoDB – Diagramming – Reverse & Forward Engineering (JSON, BSON) – MongoDB certification for 2.x and 3.0 • Certified for HDP 2.1 – Forward and reverse engineering – Hive DDL 11
- 12. EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES ER/Studio: Extended Notation for MongoDB 12
- 13. EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES • Powerful enterprise glossary, model & metadata collaboration • Integrate key business terms and definitions with business systems • View, store, and manage a single source of business definitions • Attach business policies to daily workflows with contextual alerts and tips ER/Studio: Business Collaboration 13
- 14. EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES ER/Studio Team Server: Glossaries & Terms 14
- 15. EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES ER/Studio: Glossary Integration 15
- 16. EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES Database Tools Portfolio 16
- 17. EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES Concluding Remarks • ER/Studio provides automation, awareness and collaboration – Agile change management – Documents “why” and “what” for the changes – Sharing of models and metadata – Awareness and business meaning through glossaries • Agile is becoming mainstream – 73% of companies use agile to some degree – Only 16% have fully embraced it • Crucial stakeholders aren’t fully involved – Of companies using Agile, only 34% fully involve data modelers – 58% involve them somewhat – 8% exclude them entirely 17