Project Management Services
Take the stress out of delivering your business intelligence project by making sure you’re using the right systems in the right place.
Project Methodologies – Agile or Waterfall?
‘Agile’ and ‘Scrum’ project management techniques are all the rage these days, promising to achieve faster results for projects with constantly changing business requirements, by reducing project bureaucracy, meetings and documentation. These Agile approaches work well in highly experienced project teams, where all members implicitly understand how to deal with issues and risks in an informal way. They don’t work as well with a less experienced team, where the structure of the Waterfall approach (eg PRINCE) helps to provide clear guidance on best practices at each stage of the project life cycle.
So what approach should you use for BI projects? Business requirements tend to be quite high-level at the outset, and evolve during the course of the project.
This suits an Agile approach. However, a BI project is normally a business-led initiative, and as a result the core team is more used to business-as-usual activities rather than running projects.
BI and Business Performance Management Project Management
The ideal approach to managing BI projects is to blend the best elements of both management approaches as follows:
Waterfall Approach – overall governance | Agile Approach –solution design |
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The Practical Solution Framework (PSF) from PMsquare
Delivering a business performance management or Business Intelligence solution in a large organisation involves many complimentary disciplines, including finance/accounting, technical architecture, software implementation, project management and communications.
PMsquare has developed the Practical Solution Framework (PSF) for business performance management implementations, designed to provide:
The outcome of the PSF is to create a comprehensive solution program that shows defined links between the following: