Category:BI Project Manager

From Business Intelligence Compendium

The perceived delivery strenght on business intelligence of an organization will be the sum of the strength of the project managers. Project managers must deliver commitments and must deliver on time. They will do this by culling resources from within the data warehouse team and from consultancy as necessary and establishing partnerships with other internal support organizations required to support a data warehouse iteration. The project manager's role in a nutshell is the overall responsibility for the successful planning, execution, monitoring, control and closure of a project.

A project manager delivers by:

• Maintaining a highly detailed planning and follow up the progress. This includes:
  • Planning and defining Scope
  • Activity Planning and Sequencing
  • Resource Planning
  • Developing Schedules
  • Time Estimating
  • Cost Estimating
  • Developing a Budget
  • Controlling Quality
  • Managing Risks and Issues
  • Creating Charts and Schedules
  • Risk Analysis
  • Benefits Realisation
  • Scalability, Interoperability and Portability Analysis
  • Documentation
  • Team Leadership
  • Strategic Influencing
  • Customer Liaison
• Applying personal skill and judgment to everything on the project. This is a real value-add of the mroject manager. It is the project manager’s job to exercise relevant discretion.
• Tracking all relevant metrics for each iteration:
  • Project Plan milestones
  • Issues list
  • Adherence to change control practices
  • Adherence to source code control practices
  • Documentation fit for users and support personnel
  • Architectural components adherence to fit for purpose and standards
  • Regression testing performed and tests updated based on changes
  • Team members fit for tasks and career-enhanced

Given the fact that business intelligence projects are iterative in nature, working with short delivery cycles, needs to be part of the skill set of the BI project manager.

Experts

The below list of users are registered users on the Business Intelligence Compendium who have experience in this role.