Similarly, when a data mart project gets in trouble, the enterprise warehouse managers usually get involved. For one thing, they control the environment and infrastructure within which the mart lives. Some issues, concerning data quality, integration, or timeliness, inevitably lead back to the enterprise warehouse. Others, such as data mart performance, usually end up there as a matter of expertise, if nothing else. While a data mart program does allow users a certain measure of control and independence, it doesn't eliminate the need for ongoing support.
Most crises lead back to the office of the enterprise warehouse manager.
The answer, of course, is organization and infrastructure. A best seller in my parents' day, Cheaper by the Dozen , is an entertaining memoir about life in a family in which there actually were a dozen children. According to the book, it was a happy, eventful family life in which things worked rather well. Even with the immense turbulence that 12 growing children can create, all the important needs were met, albeit with a great deal of flexibility and tolerance for the unexpected. And it happened, in part, through superb organization and infrastructure.