Larissa Moss
Larissa Moss is founder and president of Method Focus Inc., a company specializing in improving the quality of business information systems. She has more than 20 years of IT experience with information asset management. Moss is coauthor of three books: Data Warehouse Project Management (Addison-Wesley, 2000), Impossible Data Warehouse Situations (Addison-Wesley, 2002) and Business Intelligence Roadmap: The Complete Project Lifecycle for Decision- Support Applications (Addison-Wesley, 2003). Moss can be reached at methodfocus@earthlink.net.
Recent Stories From this Author
When is it better to have normalized data to create data marts and when is it better to have dimensional data?
March 7, 2008 Hoping not be bombarded by emails, I still don’t get the difference between Kimball’s and Inmon’s approach.
Can anyone share some experience as to how to test a data warehouse?
March 7, 2008 Can anyone share some experience as to how to test a data warehouse? What kind of test cases needs to be written?
When we deliver a data warehouse solution, the users tell us it doesn’t match what they need. What do we need to do?
December 24, 2007 How long did it take before you delivered the data? My guess is that it was longer than three months. Within three months, the...
Is there a good book for BI project management that you would recommend?
November 28, 2007 Very soon there will be a very good book for Agile BI PM. I am hoping to publish it in the fall of 2008.
Are there any templates, checklists or questions to consider that would assist in prioritizing the various projects/initiatives required by data warehouse clients?
November 1, 2007 I can, however, share with you an approach that has worked very well.üThis is a variation of the Kepner-Tregoe decision...
What are the differences between ODS, EDW and a central repository and their specific uses?
October 31, 2007 Larissa Moss' Answer: An ODS is a database that is subject-oriented, integrated, volatile and current. It is usually used by...
How can one show intermediate deliverables/results to the business uses/sponsors?
October 1, 2007
Could you please tell me how I can shape my career in data warehousing and what I need to learn more to achieve my targets?
September 4, 2007
What is the best approach to get an integrated view of information of both my finance and sales/production systems?
August 1, 2007
Is the development methodology for BI different than operational development methodology?
July 2, 2007
