An Alternative Process Documentation for Data Warehouse Projects

It is a well-known fact that software documentation is, in practice, poor, incomplete and flexible. Projects may wish to add, change, remove or ignore any part of any document. Some may also believe that aspects of one document would sit better in another. If this is the case then users of this document and these templates are encouraged to change them to fit their needs. The paper describes a process for the documentation that describes the template in data warehouse projects. We focus our attention to develop a series of guides and checklists. This ensures that small teams of relatively skilled resources developing the system can cover all aspects of the project whilst being free to deal with the specific issues of their environment to deliver exceptional solutions, rather than a rigid methodology that ensures that large teams of relatively unskilled staff can meet a minimum standard.