Business intelligence roadmap: Project planning |
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| 11 Nov 2005 | Written by Larissa T. Moss, Shaku Atre and Edward Youdon; Published by Addison-Wesley |
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The following excerpt about business intelligence project planning is from Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications.
Business intelligence project planning: Things to consider
Business Involvement
Do we have a strong business sponsor? Do we have a backup business sponsor?
Do we have stakeholders with whom we need to communicate regularly?
How much time is the business representative committing to this business intelligence project? Is
he or she assigned to this business intelligence project full-time, or will he or she be available on
request only?
Business intelligence project scope and deliverables Did we receive a formal request for a business intelligence project?
How detailed are the requirements?
What are the requested deliverables?
Can we implement the requested scope given the schedule and the available
resources?
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Have we already performed a cost-benefit analysis?
What is the expected return on investment (ROI)?
How soon do we expect the ROI to materialize?
Business intelligence project infrastructure
Did we review our technical and nontechnical infrastructure components?
Does our infrastructure have any gaps?
Which infrastructure components will we need to work on and deliver as
part of the business intelligence project?
-- Which technical infrastructure components?
-- Which nontechnical infrastructure components?
Staffing and skills
Have we already identified the team members?
Do all team members have the skills needed to perform the responsibilities
of their assigned roles?
Should we schedule any training before the business intelligence project kickoff?
Is the project manager assigned to this project full-time? Or does he or she
have other administrative responsibilities? If the latter, who will take over
those other responsibilities for the duration of this business intelligence project?
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