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Data Warehouse Business Requirements Pre-Interview Letter

This is the draft text of the letter/mail which is send to the audience to provide the 'what, why & how' of the requirement gathering interview. Most of the stakeholders of the data warehouse business requirements, don't understand that DW BR is a different animal. Moreover, unlike Transactional systems, the business requirements specifications cannot be delegated to lowers levels. This letter helps them to understand the context and help them being better prepared.
 
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Data Warehouse Business Requirement Pre-Interview letter Template is used to communicate to the interviewees, the purpose of the Business Requirement Gathering interview, what information will be sought?, what pre-work they can do? and finally requesting for their time.

When is Data Warehouse Business Requirements Pre-Interview Letter used?

It starts getting used immediately after initiation of the business requirement phase. The end of Data Warehouse Project Scoping and Planning has a complete list of stakeholders. A project manager is expected to send these letters as the first step towards business requirement gathering as there is some lead time involved in setting the interviews. In parallel the interviewer get on to completing their side of pre-work.

Why is it used?

It meets the following objective:

  • Enforces consistency of approach with the process.
  • Give a message that this is a exercise in sincerity and it has the backing of executive sponsors.
  • Get the best results from the interview as the expectations are laid out.
  • Achieve better organization, given adequate scheduling.

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