DE Staff Re-org Strategy and Workflow
Objectives
- New DE and Analytics department workflow
- Re-structure Stakeholder Analytics requests workflow and implementation
- Re-structure Data Modeling and Development for reporting workflow and implementation
Existing Challenges
- Balancing new biz objectives and priorities with existing workloads and operations
- Inter-business-unit technical bureaucracies and politics
Solutions
- Evaluated existing ETL operations for new initiatives. i.e. bronze, silver, gold executive discoverable datasets
- Formed dev squads, funneled stakeholder requests through analysts with PMO oversight
- Jira Agile sprints to properly estimate and triage the work
Benefits
- Visibility of all operations across BI units
- Accountability of resources across BI units
- Efficient priority management relative to available resources
