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Making Big Data Work for Your Business

By : Sudhi Ranjan Sinha
Book Image

Making Big Data Work for Your Business

By: Sudhi Ranjan Sinha

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Making Big Data Work for Your Business
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 3. Managing Your Big Data Projects Effectively

To realize the full potential of Big Data, companies need to pursue several parallel initiatives, as follows:

  • Create a strong pool of qualified resources to drive various initiatives

  • Build momentum around the adoption of Big Data technologies

  • Build critical mass of success in Big Data projects

  • Build a long-term, robust, and sustainable platform for Big Data initiatives

There are many established methodologies followed in traditional technology-driven projects. At one end of the spectrum, we have the classical waterfall model, which takes a very sequential view of projects from start to finish for the entire scope of the project. At the other end of the spectrum, we have the new-age agile methodologies, which promote a more iterative approach addressing smaller chunks of the scope at a time. The project management techniques for all of them are quite mature; there is a wealth of information in published literature, case studies, and training...