Increase Productivty

The approach presented

The approach presented in Business Intelligence Roadmap encourages the use of parallel development tracks (subprojects) so that multiple development steps can be performed simultaneously and multiple project activities can occur concurrently. Some project teams may choose to roll up project activities from multiple development steps into one step, while other project teams may not need to perform some steps or activities at all. Figure 0.5 illustrates the dynamics of a typical BI decision-support project, showing several steps running simultaneously (such as Step 5, Data Analysis, and Step 6, Application Prototyping) and multiple iterations of the same step (such as Step 9, ETL Design).

Engineering Stages and the Development Steps
BI projects are organized according to the same six stages common to every engineering project. Within each engineering stage, certain steps are carried out to see the engineering project through to its completion. Business Intelligence Roadmap describes 16 development steps within these stages, as outlined below.

The Justification Stage
Step 1: Business Case Assessment

The business problem or business opportunity is defined and a BI solution is proposed. Each BI application release should be cost-justified and should clearly define the benefits of either solving a business problem or taking advantage of a business opportunity.

Taken from : Business Intelligence Roadmap- By Larissa T. Moss, Shaku Atre