Authors:
            
                    Christophe Ponsard
                    
                        
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                    Annick Majchrowski
                    
                        
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                    ; 
                
                    Stephane Mouton
                    
                        
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                     and
                
                    Mounir Touzani
                    
                        
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            Affiliations:
            
                    
                        
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                    CETIC Research Centre, Belgium
                
                    ; 
                
                    
                        
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                    Académie de Toulouse, France
                
        
        
        
        
        
             Keyword(s):
            Big Data, Process Model, Agile, Adoption, Case Studies.
        
        
            
                
                
            
        
        
            
                Abstract: 
                Nowadays, in order to successfully run their business, companies are facing the  challenge of processing ever increasing amounts of data coming from digital repositories, enterprise applications, sensors networks and mobile devices. Although a wide range of technical solutions are available to deal with those Big Data, many companies fail to deploy them because of management challenges and a lack of process maturity. This paper focuses on those aspects and reports about lessons learned when deploying a series of Big Data pilots in different domains. We provide feedback and some practical guidelines on how to organise and manage a project based on available methodologies, covering topics like requirements gathering, data understanding, iterative project execution, maturity stages, etc.