Chapter 1. Defining a Program

The chapters in this book are intended to give you recipes aiding you in defining, starting, controlling, and wrapping up your Business Intelligence Initiative (BI Initiatives).

This chapter assesses your current project delivery methodology, and highlights areas which may need to be modified or enhanced to support your business intelligence program. In order to do this, you will be using the Project Readiness Worksheet, which is split into the following recipes:

• Program or a project

• Mapping your business culture

• Adapting your project delivery methodology

• Assessing your project team

• Organizing your project team

Introduction

This chapter explores recipes designed to give you an insight into your BI Initiative.

BI Initiatives can be daunting, and seem complex to project managers or team members who have never been part of a Business Intelligence project before.

By analyzing a few key processes, understanding your organization and culture, adapting your methodology, and determining your project team, you can kick your BI Initiative off with the right start.

In order to facilitate this assessment, the project readiness worksheet will be used. The worksheet will ask a series of questions which you can complete, and at the end of each recipe give recommendations based on your responses. This worksheet will provide valuable insight into your organization.