Business Intelligence Cookbook:A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology
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Assessing your project team

In a BI Initiative it is important to have a mix of skills within the team. These skills range from presentation and information gathering, to technical development and implementation. With the right mix of skills, your project can be very successful, as a BI Initiative is not all about the technology.

How to do it...

In order to assess your project team, it is important to first understand the skills which you will require from your team to complete the project:

  1. Categorize your team members into two different buckets:
    • a. Members with good communication skills, and more business acumen and knowledge.
    • b. Members with good technical skills.
      How to do it...
  2. Create technical and business placeholders for roles required, and assign team members to the different roles:
    How to do it...
  3. Identify supporting and contributing roles for your initiative:
    How to do it...

How it works...

By understanding the roles required for the project, you can effectively recruit your team and identify any gaps in your resource pool.

See also

For more information on the different responsibilities by the roles, refer to the work practices recipes, in Chapter 2,Establishing the Project.