Organizations are feeling the pressures from a stagnant economic climate, changing government regulations, new customer demands, privacy issues, and outsourcing. In response, they are grasping at technology solutions to halt their steady loss of business knowledge. However, they keep finding themselves in the same place, only on a new platform. The reason why a large percentage of business intelligence (BI) applications fail is not due to technology. To a large degree these applications fail because of organizational, cultural, and infrastructure dysfunctions. Technology can only address how we do things. However, the root causes for the dysfunctions is often in what we do-or don't do.

Raveen Systems (RSPL) methodology could be organized into development steps, each with a basic set of activities from which to choose. The selection of stages, steps, and activities from the methodology's checklist should follow the rule of "just enough to mitigate risk."