This session describes the importance of data architecture-related documentation for project success. Typically, documentation is overlooked or looked down upon, and either not created or created half-heartedly and not useful for anyone.

It is essential that the documentation can easily and quickly be updated and kept current during the project. Tools like PowerPoint and SharePoint allow for real-time updates to provide immediate benefits to project team members and stakeholders.

This session will cover diagrams that have a proven track record of success which include:

• Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) Current and Future State examples
• High-Level Data Conversion diagrams
• Detailed Data Conversion diagrams
• System Integration diagram examples
• SharePoint List Apps for Status, Tracking, Issue Resolution
• Status Updates using color coding

Speaker: Clay Rehm

Clay is an experienced enterprise data architect with data modeling expertise in operational systems and data lake/data warehouse environments (third normal form, tabular, and dimensional modeling), and is skilled at building Data Flow Diagrams (DFD), conceptual, logical, and physical data models and source to target (S2T) maps. Clay is also experienced in insurance systems, Lean Six Sigma, JAD facilitation, project management, business architecture, BPMN, business analysis, Erwin, SharePoint, HIPAA transactions, quality assurance, and application development. He volunteers with the PMI Madison Chapter as the Director of Mentorship and provides project management training to students interested in becoming certified project managers. 

Clay is a co-author of the book "Impossible Data Warehouse Situations with Solutions from the Experts." He is a Certified Computing Professional (CCP), a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master's Degree in Software Engineering from Carroll University in Waukesha, WI.