Prerequisite: None
This course will help you see your organization from a whole new perspective! It provides insight and strategies on how to create cross-functional collaboration between the executive sponsor, steering committee, business users, management, project team, and technical staff. If your organization is struggling with misunderstandings between IT and the business, misdirected energy, finger-pointing, lost opportunities, or dissatisfied customers, you will see new possibilities and solutions in this class.
The core of the class is an exercise where you are assigned a role as an executive sponsor, manager, team member, or customer. You then interact in a chaotic, fast-paced project environment and experience the reality of what makes productive partnerships so critical, what gets in the way of their development, and what role(s) we play in making them happen. Throughout the interaction, the instructors will teach you strategies to address the issues you experience so you can immediately apply and practice what you learn relative to your data warehouse project.
You Will Learn
- The multiplicity of roles each of us plays in BI/DW and how to approach each role with more effective behavior
- Why cross-functional involvement is critical in BI/DW
- Concrete strategies for working more constructively across organizational silos
- How to address issues systemically rather than personally
- A unique framework for seeing roles and responsibilities in more effective ways
- How to overcome organizational barriers for effective governance and prioritization
Geared To
- Business sponsors; BI/DW customers; project or program managers; technical staff struggling to make sense of organizational dynamics
Enrollment is limited to 60 attendees.