A Quick Guide to Creating an Enterprise BI Roadmap for Busy IT Professionals

Your organization may have realized the hard way that it can’t build an integrated, enterprise BI platform by randomly scattering data marts like dandelions in a field . Or your organization may have gotten stuck in an infinite planning loop and they want you to fix it. Either way, you just found out you're responsible for creating a roadmap for an enterprise BI project. At best, it seems daunting. At worst, it may seem insurmountable.

The purpose of this guide is to get you up to speed quickly on what it takes to create a roadmap for your enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) project. It's written for folks that already have too many tasks on their plate and who need a quick primer on the process for creating a roadmap for enterprise BI projects.

This guide is targeted at Information Technology professionals. Specifically Business Intelligence Architects, Data Architects, IT Managers, and project coordinators (Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Project Architect, etc.). The material has evolved from real-world experience working on many EDW/BI projects, over many years, as both a consultant and a direct employee, in IT Architecture and IT management.

From a project management standpoint, the roadmap process I’m describing in this guide can be used equally well with Waterfall, Iterative, or Agile processes.