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Interrogate one dashboard

Thirty minutes and a willingness to delete charts nobody will miss.

30 min

You walk away with

A shortened dashboard and a list of what you deleted.

Take the dashboard your team looks at most.

The brief

Against every chart, answer three questions in writing:

  • Who looks at this, and on what day?
  • What decision changes based on it?
  • What would they do if it were missing?

The rule

Delete or hide every chart that fails question two. Keep the list of what you removed.

How to tell it worked

Wait two weeks. Count how many people asked for something back. That number — usually zero — is the most useful measurement you will take this quarter.

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