2. Project Management
Project management includes managing daily tasks, reporting
status, and communicating to the extended project team,
steering committee, and affected business users. The
project management team needs extensive business knowledge,
BI expertise, DW architecture background, and people
management, project management, and communications skills.
The project management team includes three functions
or members:
Project development
manager - Responsible for deliverables, managing
team resources, monitoring tasks, reporting status,
and communications. Requires a hands-on IT manager
with a background in iterative development. Must understand
the changes caused by this approach and the impact
on the business, project resources, schedule and the
trade-offs.
Business advisor - Works
within the sponsoring business organization. Responsible
for the deliverables of the business resources on
the project's extended team. Serves as the business
advocate on the project team and the project advocate
within the business community. Often, the business
advocate is a project co-manager who defers to the
IT project manager the daily IT tasks but oversees
the budget and business deliverables.
BI/DW project advisor
- Has enough expertise with architectures and technologies
to guides the project team on their use. Ensures that
architecture, data models, databases, ETL code, and
BI tools are all being used effectively and conform
to best practices and standards.
