they’re not worthless: dashboards consolidate spaghetti spreadsheets and replace rote data retrieval tasks. A great dashboard can become a beacon of consistency even as the business evolves around it. (View Highlight)
Consider our poor dashboard again. The cry of pain that eventually forms into a dashboard requirement is often driven by a need for consensus and automation. A typical ask:
Julian is wasting time pulling these numbers every week, and on top of that, I think he’s doing it wrong. Can we get a dashboard in place so we can all be on the same page?
This is fundamentally a speed issue. The team’s initial iteration was useful, so they kept doing it. Then they realized it was too inefficient to scale, and the team was losing momentum. How can the team keep the value but remove the friction? (View Highlight)
