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Dashboard Specification

Requires every tile to answer a stated question, since tiles without one become decoration.

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CategoryData AnalysisForAnalysts, Operators, DesignersTested onClaudeChatGPT

Running it, start to finish

  1. Write the questions before choosing any metric.
  2. Remove every tile with no consequent action.
  3. Assign an owner and a way to detect silent breakage.

What you get back

The output this produces, every time.

  • Requires a stated question and a consequent action for every tile.
  • Establishes one primary number, rather than a grid of equally-weighted tiles.
  • Shows normal ranges, so ordinary fluctuation does not trigger investigations.

Getting better results

Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.

  • Convert watch-metrics into alerts. Nobody watches a dashboard continuously. A threshold that matters needs an alert, not a tile.
  • Put freshness on the tile. Mixing real-time and batch data without labelling it produces decisions made on figures assumed to be current.
  • Detect breakage. A tile showing stale data after a pipeline change is worse than a blank one, because it is still trusted.

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