Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing for Project Managers & Business Analysts
2-DAY SESSION
Build the right mix of project management and requirements gathering skills to make your data warehouse project stick.
Making the decision: will BI initiatives pay off for you?
Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing are expensive initiatives that shouldn’t be taken lightly. Both involve high risk — and high reward — for the most experienced project manager or business analyst. Project management is especially critical for a data warehouse project. Without good management, projects are prone to run late, go over budget, deliver low quality, and most importantly, simply miss expectations.
Learn how to:
- Implement best practices
- Identify business and technical drivers for the project
- Gather and prioritize business and technical requirements
- Identify critical success factors and mitigate risk
- Scope out current and future project phases
- Identify organizational and cultural issues, including staffing, roles, and responsibilities
- Manage user expectations for function, schedules, performance, and availability
- Determine data warehouse methodology, project planning, and project control
- Discern effective change control
- Prepare for success in deployment, rollout and ongoing support
- Implement effective management monitoring and communication
- Harness the most proven data warehouse/BI best practices