Evolving the Universe
For designers used to a waterfall development approach, welcome to the realities of BI: it’s all iterative! Increasingly, companies are using agile development techniques in which BI capabilities are developed collaboratively between the business and IT, with new functionality delivered in weeks versus months and years.
The universe is never finished. Your first universe is version 1, which will evolve as you elicit user input, the business environment changes, the applications evolve, the source systems/data marts change, and the technology advances. After an initial deployment, there may be many enhancements as users respond to the universe and you tweak the design. Over time, the number of changes should become less frequent. ...
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