Syddjurs Municipality (2020)


Freelance BI Consultant

Timeframe and context

Period
March 2020 to April 2020.
Work style
Onsite.
Location
Ebeltoft.
Role
Freelance BI Consultant.
Interfaces
Primarily the municipality's IT team.

Pitch

The task involved establishing a better decision-making basis for analyzing the use of the municipality's buildings across the entire portfolio, so that operations and capacity could be assessed based on actual patterns rather than assumptions. I participated in the early planning along with the municipality's IT team, and as the project was descoped during planning, the requirements changed, and my role was no longer necessary.

Key outcomes

Work in detail

Other framework: Scope: Full time; Employment type: Freelancer via broker (Mjølner).

Goals and analysis needs

The purpose was to create a data foundation for analyzing the use of the municipality's buildings across the portfolio, allowing for a comprehensive view of usage, patterns, and capacity utilization, rather than just point-based insights for individual locations.

Planning and scope

I participated in early planning with the municipality's IT team, where we concretized the scope and clarification points, including which data needed to be available for the analysis to make sense, and which assumptions needed to be tested early before committing to a larger solution.

IoT context and why the project was canceled

The project had an IoT angle, where data was intended to support demand-controlled heating based on actual usage; therefore, the data foundation became a critical prerequisite. During planning, it became clear that the complexity lay primarily in the data sources, especially sensor data and the associated data quality, which made the original solution expensive and risky to build. Consequently, the project was descoped and subsequently canceled, after which the need for my role ceased.

Technologies

Primary

Company

Syddjurs Municipality is a Danish municipality on Djursland in the Central Denmark Region, and the municipality handles ordinary municipal tasks such as the operation and development of service areas for citizens and businesses, including facilities and buildings. The municipality's town hall and central administration are located in Ebeltoft.

For more information, visit syddjurs.dk.