Risks of Not Performing Step 16


As George Santayana once said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." [1] This statement applies to BI projects as much as it does to life and politics. In order to know how to improve the next project, you have to learn from the mistakes made on the last project. The post-implementation review is the vehicle for discovering the mistakes and correcting them. Excluding this step would result in repeating the same mistakes in a rapidly growing environment that affects more people with each release. We have learned from experience that correcting mistakes on small systems is much easier than correcting mistakes on large systems. The BI decision-support environment can quickly become a very large system!

[1] Santayana, George. Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense. Scribner's, 1905, p. 284.



Business Intelligence Roadmap
Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision-Support Applications
ISBN: 0201784203
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 202

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