TDWI Summer

Prerequisite: This course assumes basic understanding of project management, data warehousing, and BI.

Larissa Moss

As you work on your DW/BI project, you naturally draw upon your past experience with developing systems. To your dismay, you find that in spite of your experience, your DW/BI project is unusually frustrating. The requirements appear to be a "moving target"; communication between staff members takes too long; working tasks in a traditional way results in too much rework; and using a traditional methodology does not work at all. To top it off, the business users are pressuring you for quick deliverables (90 days or fewer) as they are still fine-tuning their requirements. As the project team scrambles to meet those expectations, data standardization is skipped, testing is cut short, documentation is not done, and quality is compromised. The end result is often an independent data mart or silo BI application.

Sound familiar? Is it possible to do it right and still deliver in 90 days? It is—if you set aside the traditional project management methods and try a new approach. You need to create self-organizing project teams and apply Extreme Scoping™, an agile approach to DW/BI projects that combines the disciplines of a spiral DW methodology with agile development principles.

You Will Learn

• How to build your DW and BI applications using software releases
• How to use the Extreme Scoping™ approach to plan and manage your project
• How to organize and empower your project teams, including their roles and responsibilities
• How to manage multiple interdependent projects under one BI program

Geared To

• BI/DW project team members; business managers and users participating on DW projects