Definition
This process is required for any Decision Support (Data Warehouse and/or Business Intelligence) projects that will require over 80 hours of work.
Project Life Cycle Approval Framework
All Decision Support Projects will follow the Project Life Cycle Approval Framework.
Prerequisites for Project Approval
Project Requests
All project requests will be entered into Service Now, and will use the Service Now Project Approval Workflow
Project Plan
A project plan listing high-level milestones and estimated completion dates.
Resource Allocations
Before commencement of each project, resources need to be allocated for the following roles:
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One resource could fill multiple roles. For example, the Project Lead could also be the QA lead.
Standard Project Deliverables
All completed Decision Support projects will deliver all milestones listed in the project plan, including:
Documentation
- Functional Reporting Requirements for
- Ad hoc reports
- Operational reports
- Analytical reports/Dashboards
- Technical Reporting Requirements
- Data Model
- Data Lineage (ETL) Specifications
- Test plans for unit and user acceptance testing for System Integration Testing, ETL testing, and Cognos testing of reports and framework packages
- Service Level Agreement
Technical
All deliverables defined in the functional reporting requirements including:
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