Unfolding the data and analytics project framework
As stated earlier, there are two elementary sides to the advised project approach:
- Traditional “Waterfall” and the incremental/iterative/Scrum/Agile way
- A “multi-disciplinary” project team
Those two elements are so critical that a project will almost certainly fail if they are not present. Intermezzo 2 contains a story about how to be successful with a specific project approach. And there is still a lot written about this topic by many experts; best practices are good ideas that you can tweak to fit within your organization.
Intermezzo 2 – successfully managing a data and analytics project
At a relatively large organization, a couple of years ago, we started out with a new team and centralized our data and analytics projects. We knew from the start (written in an implementation plan) that data and analytics projects needed a specific approach. The way in which the team was...
