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Nobody knows who&#8217;s responsible for the model anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd34 <strong>No training.<\/strong> The 3 people who attended the go-live training are the only ones who understand it \u2014 and one of them just gave notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd34 <strong>No roadmap.<\/strong> The business has evolved. New products, new cost centers, new reporting requirements. The model hasn&#8217;t kept up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The technology didn&#8217;t fail. The <em>process around it<\/em> did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After 10+ years and 40+ TM1 environments, this is the pattern I see over and over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A great Planning Analytics implementation isn&#8217;t a project. 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