Nobody Owns the Data. So Nobody Trusts the Report.
When finance and sales produce different revenue numbers from the same system, the problem is not the data. It is that nobody was ever held accountable for agreeing on a definition.
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Twenty-five years of enterprise BI projects. The failures repeat. These are the patterns.
Series 1: Getting the Question Right
The Specification Was Wrong Before the First Row Was Loaded
When the BI developer is excluded from the requirements phase, the specification is structurally wrong before the build begins. The change requests after delivery were visible from week one.
Read articleThe Meeting Where Everyone Nodded: The Report Nobody Used
Stakeholder meetings produce consensus, not real requirements. Here is how that meeting led to a report nobody used, and what the pattern teaches.
Read articleWhy Your BI Project Will Fail Before the First Report Is Built
I have watched BI projects fail the same way for twenty-five years. Not at delivery. Not during testing. They fail in the first two weeks.
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