Business Intelligence Rollout Change Log
This is a practical guide to building a change log for a business intelligence rollout project — a record of change requests and their decisions, adapted to the realities of deploying BI dashboards and self-service analytics.
What a Change Log is
A change log is a record of change requests and their decisions. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Change Log. On a business intelligence rollout project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Business Intelligence Rollout project
Business Intelligence Rollout projects live or die on deploying BI dashboards and self-service analytics. A well-built change log gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how business intelligence rollout projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Change ID and description
- Impact assessment
- Decision and date
- Updated baselines
Business Intelligence Rollout-specific considerations
Tailor the change log to the risks that most often derail business intelligence rollout projects:
- Data trust and quality
- Dashboard sprawl
- User adoption
Example
On a real business intelligence rollout project, the change log would be shaped by deploying BI dashboards and self-service analytics. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — data trust and quality, dashboard sprawl, user adoption — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.