{"id":296,"date":"2007-02-02T16:50:20","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T20:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/why-arent-you-using-my-dashboards-or-reports\/"},"modified":"2007-02-02T16:50:20","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T20:50:20","slug":"why-arent-you-using-my-dashboards-or-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/why-arent-you-using-my-dashboards-or-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Why aren&#8217;t you using my dashboards or reports?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stan from Sharp Analytics has a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sharpanalytics.com\/?p=16\">good post<\/a> on trying to make sense of how dashboards, reports, etc. are used (or not). <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen this happen a lot as well, especially when there isn&#8217;t a full lifecycle of review, support and upkeep associated with dashboards and reports.  I recommend frequent review and sign off with stakeholders and audiences after initial release and then at least quarterly once you&#8217;ve got something that&#8217;s pretty much perfect.  Remember, it&#8217;ll never stay perfect &#8211; and if you let it get stale, outdated or incorrect, you&#8217;ll quickly loose your audience and any confidence they had in the dashboard or report in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>-snip-<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why do some reports get used often, while others are viewed only once? Why do some report users login once and never return, while others return often?<\/p>\n<p>Every time I build a report, dashboard, or ad-hoc query environment I wonder if it will ever be used.  And every time I setup a user account for a new user, I wonder if they really want and need it.  Everyone involved in an IT project from a business standpoint knows that they should need the data, and they devote hours of meetings providing input and money.  So why don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t many of them ever return to take a look at the results?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stan from Sharp Analytics has a good post on trying to make sense of how dashboards, reports, etc. are used (or not). I&#8217;ve seen this happen a lot as well, especially when there isn&#8217;t a full lifecycle of review, support and upkeep associated with dashboards and reports. I recommend frequent review and sign off with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,44,37,101,92,56],"tags":[931,215,932,268],"class_list":{"0":"post-296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-best-practices","7":"category-dashboard","8":"category-implementation","9":"category-strategy","10":"category-value","11":"category-visualization","12":"tag-best-practices","13":"tag-dashboards","14":"tag-implementation","15":"tag-reports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}