Phase 5 • Business Intelligence

Phase 5 turns technical confidence into enterprise BI strategy. Learners translate analytics into stakeholder impact, govern reliable data pipelines, and design dashboards that land with executives.

What you will practice

• Defining BI operating models, stakeholder maps, and success metrics.
• Building governed data foundations with repeatable ingestion and modeling patterns.
• Translating analytics to decision support through dashboards, experimentation, and storytelling.
• Crafting the career assets and narratives that move you into BI leadership roles.

Lesson sprint

• :material-tag: Day 68 – Business Intelligence Foundations: Understand the BI mandate, stakeholder expectations, and success criteria for analytics teams.
• :material-tag: Day 69 – BI Skill Stack & Professional Identity: Map the blend of strategic and technical capabilities required for modern BI analysts.
• :material-tag: Day 70 – Understanding Data for BI: Audit source systems, data contracts, and literacy programs to build trusted insights.
• :material-tag: Day 71 – Data Sources & Governance: Define governance guardrails, stewardship roles, and catalog practices.
• :material-tag: Day 72 – Data Architecture & Modeling: Design dimensional models and ingestion pipelines that scale with business change.
• :material-tag: Day 73 – ETL & Data Preparation: Implement repeatable extraction, validation, and transformation workflows.
• :material-tag: Day 74 – Descriptive Analytics: Turn KPIs into executive dashboards with narrative context and distribution plans.
• :material-tag: Day 75 – Inferential Analytics: Apply statistical reasoning for forecasting, cohorts, and decision modeling.
• :material-tag: Day 76 – Exploratory Diagnostics: Build diagnostic workflows and triage playbooks for product and revenue teams.
• :material-tag: Day 77 – Experimentation & Predictive Foundations: Stand up experimentation processes and translate predictive signals for stakeholders.
• :material-tag: Day 78 – Analytics Toolchain: Evaluate BI platform stacks, automation, and governance capabilities.
• :material-tag: Day 79 – Self-Service Dashboards: Launch self-service programs with enablement content and success metrics.
• :material-tag: Day 80 – Visualization Strategy & Storytelling: Shape narratives, run executive readouts, and align visuals with strategic decisions.
• :material-tag: Day 81 – Operational BI Governance: Formalize governance rituals, escalation paths, and operational scorecards.
• :material-tag: Day 82 – Industry Applications: Compare BI maturity models across industries to accelerate implementation.
• :material-tag: Day 83 – Career Assets & Credentials: Package your BI portfolio, credential stack, and executive narrative.
• :material-tag: Day 84 – Strategic Roadmapping & Next Steps: Design a 90-day roadmap, transition plan, and stakeholder communications for launch.

Ready to contribute? Review the contribution guide and propose enhancements through GitHub issues or discussions.