Data Warehouse Bus Matrix

Attempting to deliver your Data Warehouse in a single iteration, “waterfall” style, would be very difficult. Today’s agile development process demands that the tasks be broken down into smaller iterative phases that incrementally deliver value. This means you need to prioritize your Data Warehouse development. In the case of a Data Warehouse, the business value…

A “Data Warehouse Bus Matrix” describes the high-level design of a Data Warehouse. At a glance, it shows all the facts and dimensions of a data warehouse and their relationships in a table-like ‘matrix’. It’s useful as a tool to design, plan, estimate and communicate your data warehouse. The “Data Warehouse Matrix” comes from the…