I have met many organisations that structure their Data Platform teams vertically, that is, they have a team for data engineering, a team for data modelling, a team for analytics, and so on. This is fine for waterfall delivery but does not support agile delivery, even if each team works agile. The primary reason that… Continue reading The Multidisciplinary Agile Team
Category: Delivery Methodology
Articles discussing how best to deliver BI projects
BI Project Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RACI)
A RACI is a matrix that summarises who is responsible for what on a project. It also defines who approves a deliverable, who is involved in the production and who is the target audience of the deliverable. The matrix is constructed by placing the project roles in columns and the tasks and deliverables in rows… Continue reading BI Project Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RACI)
BI Project Roles and Responsibilities
Having worked on and delivered many BI projects I have realised that one of the factors of a successful project is to have clearly defined roles and responsibilities for the project team members. This ensures that everyone knows what they and everyone else is responsible for and are required to do – no more "that's… Continue reading BI Project Roles and Responsibilities
BI Project Deliverables
Introduction This article lists some of the deliverables that are produced as part of a BI project. It is not a fully comprehensive list and the descriptions of the deliverables are brief but the aim is to give an overview the main deliverables so that you have a starting point for your BI project. This… Continue reading BI Project Deliverables
Automated Unit Testing in SAP Data Services. Part I
Introduction One of the key drivers of this article is that although there are many articles on unit testing in general on internet there are hardly any on unit testing with SAP DataServices. Unit testing has been accepted as a key part of the software development lifecycle for projects building applications in languages such as… Continue reading Automated Unit Testing in SAP Data Services. Part I
