There seems to be a belief among information technology (IT) teams that a data warehouse team can’t be Agile. However, you really can build data warehouses using Agile methodologies. Stop and think about what it means to be Agile. Agile is nothing more than a way of working. There’s nothing special to Agile other than people working collaboratively to solve business problems. That’s it. That’s Agile in a nutshell. When someone says a data warehouse team can’t be Agile, what they are saying is, “A data warehouse team can’t collaborate to solve business problems.” In this article I will lay out where this belief comes from and what organizations must do to eliminate this belief from data warehouse teams.