Dashboard Design
Building a capacity report from actual workload
Turn incoming work and backlog goals into effort, compare them with usable hours and slots, and show the assumptions behind a capacity gap.
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Dashboard Design
Dashboard Design
Comparing self-service BI with centrally managed reporting
Compare who builds reports, owns shared measures and approves distribution when selecting a BI reporting model.
Dashboard Design
Dashboards versus business intelligence: defining the scope
See where a dashboard request includes data, definitions and ownership, then write a clear scope for the work.
Dashboard Design
Designing a dashboard that explains exceptions
An exception tile should tell a leader what changed, whether the data is trustworthy and who is investigating.
Dashboard Design
Diagnosing slow dashboards before replacing the tool
Reproduce a slow dashboard action, locate the delay, and test whether a targeted fix meets the reader’s need before considering replacement.
Dashboard Design
Executive dashboard design
An executive dashboard should make a small number of decisions easier, not display everything the organisation can measure.
Dashboard Design
Explaining forecast ranges to business stakeholders
Explain prediction intervals, scenarios and planning allowances in plain language, with assumptions and decisions beside the range.
Dashboard Design
Financial performance analysis in BI
Structure finance BI views around approved figures, comparable periods, explainable variances and visible reporting limits.
Dashboard Design
Measuring whether dashboards are used in decisions
Connect dashboard activity with decision records and reader feedback while accounting for the limits of usage metrics.
Dashboard Design
Removing charts that do not support a decision: a method
Removing a chart can make an executive dashboard more useful.
Dashboard Design
Self-service analytics
Learn how to give teams room to create reports while maintaining dependable datasets, useful training and proportionate review.
Dashboard Design
Showing targets without hiding uncertainty
A target helps only when the viewer can tell what it represents and how certain the comparison is.