What makes a performance dashboard worth building?
A performance dashboard is worth building when it answers a question for a role on a cadence. The rep opens the rep dashboard every morning to see where to spend time; the manager opens the team dashboard before every one-on-one; the leader opens the executive dashboard on Monday morning for the week ahead. A dashboard without a clear consumer role, a clear question, and a clear cadence tends to rot. The six design rules that separate used dashboards from abandoned ones are: one role per dashboard, headline KPI first, pacing included, drill-through everywhere, filters at view time, freshness visible.