What to Say to Leadership at the Beginning of an Engagement

People

Technology/Architecture

Governance

✏ Notes

✅ The Analytics/BI success triangle: People/Governance/Technology

Setting up a program to enable analytic mindset

Asking all people to use data to aid in their day-to-day decision making. Start small. Give them training.

Data Governance

Project Governance

Self serve BI enabled

implement in Agile fashion. Most fail because of "boil the ocean" implementation.

✅All three points of the triangle are equally important. Projects fail because they focus on 1 or 2 and ignore the 3rd leg.

Embrace Agile and Lean principles. NO MORE WATERFALL

No BRUF (big requirments up front) or BDUF (big design up front)

If project fails it's because both A2 and client failed. Equally responsible for success and failure. We're partners NOT WBTYM (wham bam thank you mam) consultants. We're invested in your success. We are successful when you don't need us anymore!

21st NOT 20th century environment

maybe you really don't need a DW?

✅ A2/Client responsibility

Enable self service

Set up ACOE Analytics Center of Excellence #

⭐ Tech/Arch - A2(90%) / Client(10%)

⭐Governance - A2(25%) / Client(75%)

⭐ People - A2(10%) / Client(90%)

A2 can provide framework, but Client most responsible to implement