>I've been doing this for a while.
>Agile had lots of predecessors.
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>A wise man once told me that there are things you do to look as if you know what you're doing and things that you do because they get the job done most efficiently, and they're really the same.
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Agreed.

I first read Ralph Kimball's works (around 2005) regarding the shaping of business data into facts and dimensions (with the different types of relationships), I thought to myself, "wow, I was basically doing that with my boss in 1989....and I didn't know Ralph Kimball from Ralph on the TV show Happy Days"

Certainly Kimball provided some great methodologies and great form for the approach that helped me strengthen my data warehousing efforts....but it certainly wasn't new. And Kimball himself acknowledged that syndicated data suppliers (like IRI and AC Nielsen) had been shaping data into similar forms long before he wrote his books.

So yes, often, "there's nothing new under the sun".