---
schema_version: "1"
id: 6f8cc84129490cd683f542e42b4ab9f1690bd61a1f1dfa0526b6a6d945f85717
title: Executive advocacy and project team
collection: tableau
version: next
locale: en-gb
portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/tableau/next/en-gb/blueprint/bp_team.md
canonical_url: https://help.tableau.com/v0.0/blueprint/en-gb/bp_team.htm
source_site: help.tableau.com
content_type: documentation
content_hash: 3f5b6f773c8943ebbefd62ff3fed4c2e5a4508750c1a759b3b1eb08aa1c80b31
description: Blueprint guidance on building executive advocacy and a project team to drive data-driven change.
---
[Skip to main content](#main-content)

# Executive advocacy and project team

> [!TIP]
> 
> This content is part of Tableau Blueprint – a maturity framework allowing you to zoom in and improve how your organisation uses data to drive impact. To begin your journey, take our [assessment](https://www.tableau.com/en-gb/learn/webinars/tableaus-blueprint-self-assessment).

Becoming a data-driven organisation requires more than just choosing the right technology platform. It requires new skillsets, new processes, and changes in behaviour from all users within your organisation. Enterprise deployment requires effort and coordination across multiple stakeholders and users with different and sometimes opposing viewpoints and interests; however, each one will provide their own valuable perspective. Orchestrating this change, and doing it efficiently, requires buy-in, alignment and participation from a broad set of cross-functional stakeholders.

Executive sponsors working with the project team need to consider not only how to scale the technology for the entire organisation, but also the support, training and change management needed, as well as the ability to overcome any organisational roadblocks. Maximising analytics investments and capitalising on the transformative potential of data means that everyone encountering it – regardless of skill levels and data fluency – must be able to turn insights into opportunities or innovations.

Forming the cross-functional steering committee and project teams is the first step towards becoming a data-driven organisation. The input and skillsets of executives, IT and business stakeholders, and users are critical for buy-in, alignment and, ultimately, the project’s success. Together, they will be able to shape your organisation’s vision for modern analytics most efficiently, working towards the common goal of making secure, governed data access a reality.

The topics in this section outline the key roles for building a culture of analytics and how they are interconnected. The Roles and responsibilities tab of the [Tableau Blueprint Planner](https://mkt.tableau.com/TableauBlueprintPlanner.xlsx) will help you define and document your executive sponsor steering committee and project team members.

## Other articles in this section