Dashboard
79 posts filed under Dashboard.
The Engagement That Started As A 10-Day Review
The brief says the dashboards are slow. Day five usually finds the reason nobody asked about.
Read →Your Data Debt Isn't Technical
Most of the data debt I see at 40-person companies is three definitions of 'customer' written in SQL.
Read →The Dashboard Nobody Trusted
When finance keeps a shadow spreadsheet next to the official dashboard, the spreadsheet is usually right.
Read →Stop Hiring A 'Data Person
Your job post for a 'data person' describes three jobs. Whoever takes it will burn out doing all three.
Read →The Reporting Lag That Signals Outgrowth
Ask whoever builds your monthly report to list every manual step. The list is your platform gap.
Read →The Three-Layer Rule For Small Teams
I've seen five-person data teams with six warehouse layers. Nobody could say which one finance reads.
Read →Three Numbers That Predict A Rebuild
Dashboard query time, pipeline failures per week, days to first data change. Pull all three this afternoon.
Read →The Rebuild Cost Curve
Every quarter the wrong data foundation stays in place, more of the business gets built on top of it.
Read →Startup Stack Vs Scale-Up Stack
About half the data stack that got you to 25 people won't make it to 80. You can guess which half now.
Read →dbt Coalesce Metadata Shift
The description fields in your dbt project used to be read by nobody. Now an agent reads them.
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