Daryl, what is the cost of this course?

Diane Petruccio
Director, Institutional Research
Ursuline College
440-646-8390

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To OAIRP Membership:

On October 29 and 30, a two-day course in data warehouse project
management will be offered at the University of Toledo. This is a very
happy coincidence, with OAIRP set to discuss data warehouses at its
October 19 conference, and with one or more presenters and panelists
likely to emphasize the importance of effective project management.

If you might benefit from this course, please consider joining us on the
29th and 30th. And please share this message with others who might also
be interested. The following copy of a recent message to UT staff
provides information about the course. Also, please note that as of 9:00
this morning, 7 of the 22 available seats in the course have been
filled.

Thanks, and see you Friday in Columbus.

Daryl


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Subject: Data Warehouse Project Management Course
The Division of Continuing Education is proud to offer this inhouse
special training session in cooperation with:
Sid Adelman, Principal, Sid Adelman & Associates
(http://www.sidadelman.com/)
This in-depth data warehouse class will be held on October 29 - 30, 2001

8:30am - 5:00pm at the University Computer Center (UCC)

Fee Payments can be processed for this class, please use the following
code: INC 1306

This is the first part of a Data Warehouse Bootcamp, the second part
in the series will be offered November 13-14, 2001 (INC 1307)

Course Description for Data Warehouse Project Management Course:

DW Project Managers are usually thrown into the position without a clear
idea of their role and authority, what they are expected to do, or even
the
objective of the DW.  In the process of implementing a DW project, these
managers are forced to develop materials and approaches out of whole
cloth.
If they are resourceful and clever, they can be moderately successful
but
they always have false starts and failures along the way.  This seminar
should minimize those false starts and failures.  It will provide many
of
the materials the project manager has to develop and should maximize the
chances for success.

The key to the success of data warehouse projects is strong project
management.  This session will address the components of project
management
that are unique to data warehouse.  It will give prospective data
warehouse
project managers a good understanding of their role as well as the
important ingredients for their success.

The session will highlight:
Establishing goals and objectives and creating a scope agreement
Organizational and cultural issues including staffing and roles and
responsibilities
Managing user expectations for function, schedules, performance and
availability
Understanding and mitigation of risk
Data warehouse methodology, project planning and project control

Some of the topics that would be covered in the class include:

1. Role of the DW Project Manager
 Skills required
 Where do they report, authority
2. Goals and objectives of the DW - what are we trying to accomplish?
 Matching the strategic goals of the enterprise
 Short and long term objectives
3. Indicators of success
 Critical success factors
 What constitutes success
4. Project planning, scheduling, scope creep
 Tasks and deliverables
 Realistic scheduling
 Managing demands for new capabilities
5. Managing the user, managing user expectations, agreements with users
 Document user requirements
 Relationship with the user
 User expectations for performance, availability. schedules, access
 capability and data
6. Internal selling of the project
 The necessity to sell
 Evaluating results
 Modes of presentation and communication
7. Organizational and cultural issues
 Staffing, roles and responsibilities
 Data ownership
 Governance
8. Risk mitigation
 Areas of risk
 How to minimize risk and keep your job
9. Controlling the project
 Managing the vendors
 Managing staff changes
 Managing changes in direction
 Managing detractors
 Cases and Exercises
1. Evaluating risk
2. Dealing with Scope Creep
3. Assessing your team's skills
4. Negotiating with your boss

Audience Description
This class would be attended by current (or hopeful) data warehouse
project managers, data warehouse leads, data warehouse managers and
users who are responsible for co-managing a data warehouse project.

Objectives
 Learn the roles and responsibilities necessary to implement a
successful
data warehouse
 Learn how to plan a data warehouse project and learn of the tasks
unique to
data warehouse.
 Understand the risks involved with data warehouse and how to mitigate
those
risks.
 Learn how to cost justify a data warehouse project.

Key Topics
 Scoping a data warehouse project
 Establishing an organization
 Building a cost/benefit analysis
 Selecting data warehouse tools and dealing with vendors


Prerequisites
 Basic understanding of the concepts of data warehouse.
 An absolute desire to be successful in implementing a data warehouse
application.

Course Materials
Students that already have a set of requirements, a scope document, an
organizational outline or a project plan are asked to bring them to the
class.


Contact information for replies to this message:
Name: Bev, Mary or Judy
Department/organization: Continuing Education
UT Location: SeaGate
Phone Number: 419-321-5139