As a former high school teacher turned data architect and engineer, my career path has twisted through a variety of types of industries, companies and project management styles. One of my biggest projects at my first software engineering job I wrote a project management application and when I was interviewing somewhere else the interviewer looked at me and said- so you wrote JIRA? The first time someone described Agile to me the words "cogs in a wheel" were used and I instantly had a bad taste in my mouth.

However, over the last 15+ years being in the tech industry, I've really had a reckoning with the Agile development process and what it specifically means for data projects. This talk will go through my experiences with agile and data and how I've come to view the role of agile in data architecture, development and engineering.