Dear All,
I have an open question for BI project deployment.
I believe there's a question list which could cover most BI project issues before we start any projects.
I would like to gather the necessary questions you consider important for BI projects.
I have list tips below, and I would choose as best answers who win most likes in the following one week.
Audiences
Which department you’ll support?
Who’re the audiences of the reports?
What data access permissions are for different audiences?
Business Contactor
Who will participate in the project?
What roles will they play in the project?
What’re the e-mails, phone numbers?
Business issues
What kinds of business questions you want to ask?
What kinds of dimensions you want to analyze?
What measures you would like to take?
What the measures’ data accuracy you would like to take?
What business rules you would apply?
BI Platform
Which BI platform you decide to take?
Why you choose the BI platform?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the BI platform?
Data Sources
How many data sources will the project take?
How often will the data sources be updated?
Who will provide the data sources?
What are the data sources’ qualities?
What’re the data sources’ data granularities?
What types(database/xlsx/html/etc.) of the data sources are?
What data volume would data sources be?
Permissions
What permissions you need for accessing the data sources?
How many systems’ accounts and passwords you need have?
What are the systems’ accounts and passwords?
Deliveries
What kinds of frequencies the report or dashboard is provided?
What materials are delivered?
Insights and Actions
What actions business people need to take after getting the insights?
What frequencies will the data sources be updated?
Development
What data visualization views you will display?
How much time you estimate for the whole project?
Will the data sources be strong enough to support the data visualization views?
Will the dimension values match the data visualization display items?
Will the measures accuracy match the data visualization analysis?
What ETL steps need to be applied?
Which data model you choose to build? (Star-schema Fact or Link Table Centralized, Snow Flake)
Thank you for all of your time in advance.
