Chapter Zero. Guide to the Development Steps

Chapter Overview

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Business intelligence (BI), with a focus on BI decision-support applications, such as sales forecasting

• The need for and the structure of Business Intelligence Roadmap as a development guide

• The 16 development steps applicable to BI decision-support projects

• The three parallel development tracks usually followed by BI project teams

• Project team structure, including the roles and responsibilities assigned to the core team members and the extended team members

• A brief justification for using Business Intelligence Roadmap as your development guide for BI decision-support projects