Data Project Management
Someone has to own the dashboard project
The work stalls when nobody owns the decisions that get the report used. We run the project through to a report the business will open.
The build can look done while finance still opens the old file
Scope keeps moving after kickoff. The refresh has no owner, and neither does the question of who can see which rows. Training is a slide deck, and it happens after the meeting that needed the report. Finance keeps the spreadsheet because nobody held those decisions long enough for the meeting to move.
The work happens in the report
The people who have to use the number work in the report while there is still time to change it.
What we hold until people use it
Scope
It stays tied to the decision the report has to support. A new request joins the work only when it changes that decision.
Owners
There is a name for the project, a name for keeping the report current, and a name for who can see which rows.
The calendar
There is a timeline the business can see, including the day people are told what changed.
Training
It happens on the report, before the meeting that needs it. Afterward we check that people can open it and answer the question.
Next step
Name the decision nobody owns
Book a Session. We will name the owner, the decision, and the date the meeting should leave the old file.