Implementing Analytics

Chapter 8

Requirements Gathering for Analytics Projects

Contents

Purpose of Requirements

Requirements: Historical Perspective

Calculations

Process Automation

Analytical and Reporting Systems

Analytics and Decision Strategy

Requirements Extraction

Problem Statement and Goal

Working Example from Consumer Credit

Data Requirements

Data Requirements Methodology

Model and Decision Strategy Requirements

Business Process Integration Requirements

This chapter addresses the challenges of gathering requirements in an analytics project. This is challenging since a business has probably never seen anything like it and might not know exactly what they want to accomplish. In Chapter 8 we relied on a pilot project to make a case for an adoption of analytics; ...