This article was originally published to a blog which has been decommissioned.
Business Intelligence (BI) projects are usually intended to meet a hybrid of different needs, frequently including standardized reports and dashboards, self-service reporting, and data discovery tools. Quite often, unexpected relationships and architectural challenges are found in data during the course of a project. Experienced BI teams are not strangers to mid-project discoveries such as many-to-many relationships instead of traditional dimensions, key relationships that do not map properly, and calculations that need to be modified for the unique needs of the business users.
Despite detailed working sessions with business users and preliminary data analysis, sometimes changes to requirements are needed for a project to meet the needs of the business. Even the most carefully planned projects can end up with initial SOWs that don’t fully capture the details of the actual development required to complete a project.
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