Project Roles

To deliver BI functionality, the project team should include both IT and business personnel. As discussed in Chapter 1, a BI project never ends, and your company’s ability to leverage it to a competitive advantage is evolutionary. Therefore, many of these roles will continue beyond the project completion to provide ongoing support. You may decide to roll some of the responsibilities into a BI competency center, or conversely, you may staff certain project phases with people who are part of an existing BI competency center. A sample organizational model of a BI competency center is shown in Figure 3-4.

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Figure 3-4 A BI organizational ...

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