This paper is a list of political issues that frequently come up in data warehousing projects.
People often get blind sided by politics.
My hope is that this paper might give readers some advance warning of these issues. Though what is done about these issues varies by organization, I believe the best advice to data warehouse implementers is to do your best to spot these issues early and then pick your battles wisely. I recommend that you read Marc Demarest's The Politics of Data Warehousing in conjunction with this paper. In his June 1997 paper, Marc comments on how little extended discussion of politics there is in the data warehousing literature. As of the writing of this paper, to the best of my knowledge, that situation still has not changed.