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DR V Nagaveni Professor, Dept of CSE, AIT: Business Intelligence Managing The BI Project

The document discusses managing a business intelligence (BI) project. It covers defining the project goals, scope, risks, constraints and assumptions. It also discusses creating a work breakdown structure, estimating tasks, assigning resources, determining dependencies, and creating a detailed project plan and schedule using techniques like historical estimates and critical path method. The key deliverables from project planning activities are outlined like the project charter defining objectives, solution, costs and more.

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DR V Nagaveni Professor, Dept of CSE, AIT: Business Intelligence Managing The BI Project

The document discusses managing a business intelligence (BI) project. It covers defining the project goals, scope, risks, constraints and assumptions. It also discusses creating a work breakdown structure, estimating tasks, assigning resources, determining dependencies, and creating a detailed project plan and schedule using techniques like historical estimates and critical path method. The key deliverables from project planning activities are outlined like the project charter defining objectives, solution, costs and more.

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Business Intelligence

II Module
Managing the BI Project

Dr V Nagaveni
Professor ,Dept of CSE,AIT
Managing the BI Project

• Detailed project planning and hands-on daily


project control are often minimized, if not
ignored.
• The goal is to answer four basic questions:
• What will be delivered?
• When will it be done?
• How much will it cost?
• Who will do it?
Project Constraints
Defining the BI Project

Project planning includes creating a project charter,


which defines the project in terms of:
• Goals and objectives
• Scope (the expected project deliverable )
• Risks
• Constraints
• Assumptions
• Change-control procedures
• Issues management procedures
Common project risks include the following:

• Lack of management commitment


• Lost sponsor
• Lack of business participation
• Imposed, unrealistic schedule
• Unrealistic scope for the schedule
• Unrealistic expectations
• Unrealistic budget
• Untrained or unavailable staff
• Constantly changing business priorities
• Ineffective project management
• Limited scalability
Project Constraints Assumptions
Here is an example of how two assumptions on a project
backfired.
• Assumption 1: "The vendor promises to deliver a new database
server in May, and by the end of June the IT staff will install and
test a new database management system (DBMS) product on
that server. This allows plenty of time before the project
deadline, which is September 30, the fiscal year-end."
• Assumption 2: "Joe Bamberg will be the database administrator
on the project because he is the only person in our organization
who has that particular DBMS skill, which is needed for the
project. He has already joined the project team."
Change-Control Procedures

Depending on how critical the change request is,


the business representative has to decide
whether to:
• Cut back from the current scope by eliminating
some of the originally requested data and
functionality
• Extend the deadline
• Declare the requested change unfeasible at this
time and postpone it
Planning the BI Project

The sequence of activities for preparing a project plan.


• Create a work breakdown structure listing activities,
tasks , and subtasks .
• Estimate the effort hours for these activities, tasks, and
subtasks.
• Assign resources to the activities, tasks, and subtasks.
• Determine the task dependencies.
• Determine the resource dependencies.
• Determine the critical path based on the dependencies.
• Create the detailed project plan.
Estimating Techniques

We can derive the base estimates by using one of


three methods :
• Historical, based on learned patterns (how
long it took on the last project)
• Intuitive, based on intuition and experience
("gut" estimating)
• Formulaic, based on the average of possibilities
Resource Assignment

Skills the ability to perform specific tasks. Has the


team member done this type of work before?
• Environmental Factors That Can Affect Team
Members' Availability
• Administrative Factors Non-Work- Related Factors
• Lack of computer access Vacation
• Time required to Illness
troubleshoot other
Task Dependencies
Resource Dependencies

• Elapsed Days When Two People Can Work on


the Tasks

• Elapsed Days When Only One Person Is


Available
Critical Path Method
Project Schedules
Project Planning Activities
Deliverables Resulting from These Activities

Project charter
• Goals and objectives (both strategic goals for the organization and specific
objectives for the BI project)
• - Statement of the business problem
• - Proposed BI solution
• - Results from the cost-benefit analysis
• - Results from the infrastructure gap analysis (technical and nontechnical)
• - Functional project deliverables ( reports , queries, Web portal)
• - Historical requirements (how many years of history to store)
• - Subject area to be delivered
• - Entities (objects), significant attributes, relationships (high-level logical data
model)
• - Items not within the project scope

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