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College warehouse project leader responsibilities

Short answer

The project leader defines scope, plans, selects architecture, ensures data quality, coordinates team, and manages deployment. Sub-systems include requirement/design, load manager (ETL), warehouse manager (transform, aggregate), query manager, data marts (Academic, HR, Finance), front-end tools, and testing/training, each assigned to partners.

Assume that your college has a perfect software package named College Management Information System (CMIS) which includes Teacher Database, Student Database, Staffs Database and Account Database and also manages tutorials, class notes through web. There is a facility of online assessment examination system that might be controlled by each subject teacher. Except this, now your College management board has passed to develop a project named college warehouse system and announced the tender notice through college web. Suppose that you are the project leader of this warehouse development system. As a project leader, (a) What are your responsibilities? (b) Divide the project into sub-system and describe the responsibilities assigned to your other partners with the help of your warehouse system architecture.

Assumptions

CMIS holds teacher, student, staff, account and online-exam data in separate databases. The warehouse will give management analysis such as student performance trend, fee collection, staff workload and finance.

(a) Responsibilities of the project leader

  • Understand management needs and define scope, goals and deliverables.
  • Prepare the project plan, schedule, budget and risk plan; submit the tender proposal.
  • Form the team and assign roles; coordinate between them.
  • Select the architecture (bottom-up with data marts), hardware, DBMS and tools.
  • Ensure data quality, security and privacy of student and staff data.
  • Monitor progress and quality, manage changes, report to the board.
  • Arrange testing, user training, deployment and maintenance.

(b) Sub-systems and responsibilities

 Student DB  Teacher DB  Staff DB  Account DB  Exam DB
      \         |          |         |         /
       v        v          v         v        v
          [ LOAD MANAGER (ETL) ]
                   v
          [ WAREHOUSE MANAGER ]
                   v
    Detailed | Summary | Metadata | Data marts
         Academic   HR   Finance
                   v
          [ QUERY MANAGER ]
                   v
       Reports | OLAP | Mining tools
Sub-systemPartner responsibility
Requirement and designStudy CMIS, define fact/dimension models (Result fact: student, subject, teacher, time)
Load managerExtract from the five databases, clean, load to staging
Warehouse managerTransform, merge, aggregate, index, back-up, archive, metadata
Query managerRoute and schedule queries, user access control
Data martsAcademic, HR, Finance marts
Front endDashboards, OLAP, mining (pass-fail prediction, dropout analysis)
Testing and trainingVerify data accuracy, train users

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