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November 24, 2009
A practitioner's view on data integration worst practices
In my last blog, I spoke about some of the best practices in data integration. Today, I'd like to briefly talk about some of the worst practices. These insights come again from Phil Watt, who was the keynote speaker at our Nov 19 webinar on affordable, end-to-end data integration lifecycle management.
Paul stated that constantly changing requirements can make project delivery very difficult. He also highlighted the issue of ignoring reality, meaning that everybody who is actually involved in the project should be seen as a key stakeholder and their opinion should be valued. He said that he has seen many times where people are ignoring what the delivery team has been saying and go on to say "well we got to deliver in 3 months come what may." He went on to discuss a recent situation with a client whose company spent a high proportion of their budget on a traditional data integration tool and then didn't have any budget left to implement an important suggestion that would have made the project much more valuable. So again, it is important that one picks an affordable technology that enables you to deliver the most value to your business within your budget constraints.
Paul also mentioned that he has seen worst practices where projects fail to involve the business early on in the process. He highlighted the fact that sometimes people on the project obsess over trivial details that really have little or no impact on the project. And lastly, one of the biggest mistakes one can make is by failing to deliver early and often to keep the project stakeholders interested with regular deliverables.
Click here to play back our archived webinar on end-to-end data integration lifecycle management.
- Michael Waclawiczek, VP Marketing
Posted by expressor software at November 24, 2009 12:30 PM
Comments
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Posted by: ZamoraEleanor31 at June 1, 2010 9:41 PM
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