Learning Tableau 10 - Second Edition, Milligan Joshua N.

• Create meaningful data visualizations and dashboards in Tableau
• Analyze and display your data effectively using Tableau
• Extend the value and functionality of your data with this step-by-step guide

In the professional world, turning massive amounts of data into something that can be seen and understood is vitally important. This is where Tableau steps in. It has emerged as a clear leader in data visualization because it translates your actions into a database query and expresses the response graphically.

It also has the unique ability to do ad hoc analysis of millions of rows of data in just a matter of seconds with Tableau's Data Engine. Tableau is a rare software platform that is intuitive and even fun to use, which also enables you to dive deep into answering complex questions about your data.

Starting with creating your first dashboard in Tableau 9.0, this book will let you in on some useful tips and tricks, teach you to tell data stories using dashboards, and teach you how to share these data stories. Practical examples along with detailed explanations of how and why various techniques work will help you learn Tableau quickly - and master its advanced functions too.

• Explore and analyze your data by creating basic and advanced data visualizations
• Fix data problems, enhance your analysis, and create rich interactivity using custom calculations
• Perform effective analysis by joining and blending data from different sources
• Enhance your visualizations with custom formatting, labels, and annotations
• Explore advanced topics such as sheet swapping, custom maps, and LOD calculations
• Create meaningful dashboards in Tableau
• Extend the value and functionality of your data
• Share your data story using story points and fully interactive dashboards

• Learn how to be Agile at scale by implementing best practices
• Understand how Lean-Agile practices are incorporated in Disciplined Agile and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Customize Scrum and Lean-Agile practices to support portfolio and large product development needs

Book Description

Scaled Scrum and Lean-Agile practices provide essential strategies to address large and complex product development challenges not addressed in traditional Scrum. This Scrum/ Lean-Agile handbook provides a comprehensive review and analysis of industry-proven scaling strategies that enable business agility on an enterprise scale. Free of marketing hype or vendor bias, this book helps you decide which practices best fit your situation.

You'll start with an introduction to Scrum as a lightweight software development framework and then explore common approaches to scaling it for more complex development scenarios. The book will then guide you through systems theory, lean development, and the application of holistic thinking to more complex software and system development activities. Throughout, you'll learn how to support multiple teams working in collaboration to develop large and complex products and explore how to manage cross-team integration, dependency, and synchronization issues. Later, you'll learn how to improve enterprise operational efficiency across value creation and value delivery activities, before discovering how to align product portfolio investments with corporate strategies.

By the end of this Scrum book, you and your product teams will be able to get the most value out of Agile at scale, even in complex cyber-physical system development environments.

What you will learn

• Understand the limitations of traditional Scrum practices
• Explore the roles and responsibilities in a scaled Scrum and Lean-Agile development environment
• Tailor your Scrum approach to support portfolio and large product development needs
• Apply systems thinking to evaluate the impacts of changes in the interdependent parts of a larger development and delivery system
• Scale Scrum practices at both the program and portfolio levels of management
• Understand how DevOps, test automation, and CI/CD capabilities help in scaling Scrum practices

Who this book is for

Executives, product owners, Scrum masters, development team members, and other stakeholders who need to learn how to scale Agile to support large, complex projects and large enterprise portfolios and programs will find this book useful. A basic understanding of the values and principles of Agile and the Scrum-based framework for Agile development practices is required before you get started with this Agile Scrum book.