[anymouse123456]

I've seen so many of these projects over the years, and they are almost always used for success theater, promotions or just plain ego.

- What do you hope to learn from this tool?

- Is there a less expensive way to get this information?

- The data will move 1 of three directions; up, down or stay the same. Ahead of time, what will you do in each case? Asking me to change the direction of the line is not an acceptable answer. Do we still need to make the chart? Or were all three answers the same?

- This is not a one-and-done project. The moment some visibility emerges in the fog, you will be desperate for more answers. We must set up a process for the never ending litany of questions that will emerge from this work.

- Smaller is better, incremental, fast iteration and ability to change are all far more important in dashboard work than stable, long term, deeply reliable.

- This is the conversation I even have with myself as I work on data for my own company.

[drewcoo]

> The data will move 1 of three directions; up, down or stay the same. Ahead of time, what will you do in each case? Asking me to change the direction of the line is not an acceptable answer. Do we still need to make the chart? Or were all three answers the same?

It's a feedback system. Feedback is only useful if it can trigger behavior change. How can this measurement change the company's behavior?

Anything else is a vanity metric.