MoT NL Meetup 19 feb 2026

Transcript

1. Dashboards or Management p*rn? Linda van de Vooren
2. LINDA VAN DE VOOREN
4. My biggest nemesis
5. Why dashboards?
6. Bad dashboards
7. Wenus
8. Why to ‘they’ ask for the wrong things? • This is what they’ve been tought in their management training • This is what they see others do • Their manager asks this of them (and they didn’t ask why) • They think this is what they need
9. What do you want to know? • Given the context • Given the risk • Given the go-live date
10. How do you actually deal with this? • Ask what decision this dashboard is supporting If there is no decision or decisive action a dashboard supports, why make it?
11. How do you actually deal with this? • What would (could?) cause escalation? What information would the most vital and important information you could possibly use to escalate? (And why would you, or would not want to escalate?)
12. How do you actually deal with this? • What information do you need, to make the decision right now to go live? Surely the information of ‘1 blocker’ is not enough. What risk are you interested in for go-live? Where is the risk in production?
13. How do you actually deal with this? • What could delay the release? Why would it be a bad thing? Or should we yolo this to production and see what happens?
14. What would be on a good dashboard? (audience participation, you may now speak) • What risk if we go live right now? • What risk if we go live after defect X is fixed? • Are there dependencies outside the project? • Do we need to update the steering committee? • And then: what do you tell them? • Is there any specific help we can identify?
15. Tell them this If we go live today: • X would fail • Y user group would experience work disrupting errors all day • Z integration is completely untested, we might not be able to send out any invoices and we’ll not know what’s missing afterwards
16. Our job • Make risk visible • Preferably in a visually attractive (or funny) way • Make uncertainty explicit • Enable enforced decisions
17. Thank you! Slides and information at LindaVanDeVooren.nl /MoTNLFeb2026/ @ S A P P H I R E L I N D A
19. • Pictures used from the Free Unsplash library and google examples of dashboards