I try to avoid making super generalized statements about dashboard development, but here’s one: Manual maintenance on dashboards is not good. (By ‘manual maintenance’, I mean anything that requires you to periodically come back to the dashboard to change values, update calculations, edit visuals, etc, just to keep it working.)
It can’t always be avoided, and it’s not always a big deal, but it’s a net negative. It eats up time that could be used for new work, and it’s an opportunity for error to creep in. We may never be able to escape manual maintenance, but here are three ways to reduce it.
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