Business intelligence roadmap: Project planning

Business intelligence roadmap: Project planning

Larissa T. Moss, Shaku Atre and Edward Youdon

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?

 

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More information on this book
Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications
 By: Larissa Terpeluk Moss, Shaku Atre, Edward Yourdon
Published By: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0201784203
Copyright: February 2003
Pages: 543

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?

     

 


This was first published in November 2005

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