Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing: Project Management

Project management is especially critical for a data warehouse project. Without good management, projects are prone to being short on required resources. They are late, over budget, low quality and, most importantly, they don t meet expectations.

The data warehouse project manager must embrace new tasks and deliverables, develop a different working relationship with the users, and work in an environment that is far less defined than with traditional operational systems.

The project management course helps managers develop the skills they need to usher their projects through all phases of planning and implementation. It provides a solid basis on: test data, metadata planning, data stewardship, governance, backup planning, ROI measurement, documentation, support preparation, user training, communications planning, and other elements of a successful data warehouse.
What you will learn:

* How to identify business and technical drivers for the project
* How to gather and prioritize business and technical requirements
* How to scope out current and future project phases
* The organizational and cultural issues, including staffing, roles, and responsibilities
* How to manage user expectations for function, schedules, performance, and availability
* How to identify critical success factors and mitigate risk
* Data warehouse methodology, project planning, and project control
* Effective change control
* How to prepare for success in deployment, rollout and ongoing support
* Best practices

Who Should Attend:

This course is for business and technical managers who may be planning or managing a business intelligence application or data warehouse project, but is also suitable for anyone who wants to understand what is involved in managing either a business intelligence or data warehouse project. Typical attendees are:

* Data warehouse or business intelligence project managers, directors, and technical leads
* Business sponsors, business users
* Data warehouse architects

Duration:

Two day classroom instruction. Optional one-day workshop (see below).

Prerequisite Education or Experience:

Introductory course for data warehousing or basic exposure to business intelligence or data warehousing projects.